Ron Wyden

Ron Wyden

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Ron Wyden, an American politician born in 1949, is someone whose words carry as much weight as their professional legacy. Their reputation for his libertarian-leaning stances within the Democratic Party, Wyden has been a prominent advocate for privacy rights, internet freedom, and limiting government surveillance, positioning him as a defender of civil liberties lends every quote an extra layer of authority. Our collection holds 40 quotes from Ron Wyden, each offering a different angle on Health, Business, Power, Legal, and Government. A line that stays with you: "When I was 27 years old, I organized legal aid clinics to help low-income seniors. It was a life-altering experience."

“Americans are free to choose everything from what they eat, drive and watch on TV to the President of the United States. Yet, when it comes to allowing Americans to choose the health insurance that works best for them and their family, the freedom to choose suddenly becomes un-American.”

— Ron Wyden

Freedom

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“The Internet has changed the way we communicate with each other, the way we learn about the world and the way we conduct business.”

— Ron Wyden

Business

“Since 1994, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have considered it politically risky to offer a plan to fix America's broken health care system. The American public, though, has paid the price for this silence as health care costs skyrocketed, millions went uninsured, and millions more grappled with financial insecurity and hardship.”

— Ron Wyden

Health

“It is hard to miss the irony in the fact that the very same week that Republicans were publicly heralding Congressman Paul Ryan's plan to inject market forces into the American health care system, they were crafting a budget deal to strip them from the health reform law.”

— Ron Wyden

Health

“It is hard to see Judge Roberts as a judicial activist who would place ideological purity or a particular agenda above or ahead the need for thoughtful legal reasoning.”

— Ron Wyden

Legal

“I agree with just about everyone in the reform debate when they say 'If you like what you have, you should be able to keep it.' But the truth is that none of the health reform bills making their way through Congress actually delivers on that promise.”

— Ron Wyden

Health

“Under the Healthy Americans Act, you're in charge of your health care - not your employer. If you lose your job, change jobs or just can't find a job, your health insurance is guaranteed to stick with you.”

— Ron Wyden

Health

“It is unclear exactly how many law enforcement agencies are currently using this capability, but it is reasonable to say that while resource limitations used to discourage the government from tracking you without a good reason, these constraints have largely disappeared.”

— Ron Wyden

Government

“If China is helping its domestic industries charge an artificially low price for solar panels and other environmental goods, then China is violating international trade rules that it agreed to when it became a member of the World Trade Organization.”

— Ron Wyden

Environmental

“Americans are free to choose everything from what they eat, drive and watch on TV to the President of the United States. Yet, when it comes to allowing Americans to choose the health insurance that works best for them and their family, the freedom to choose suddenly becomes un-American.”

— Ron Wyden

Freedom

“Protect IP (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) are a step towards a different kind of Internet. They are a step towards an Internet in which those with money and lawyers and access to power have a greater voice than those who don't.”

— Ron Wyden

Power

“While Free Choice Vouchers didn't fulfill my vision of a health care system in which every American would be empowered to hire and fire their insurance company, they were a foothold for choice and competition and a safety valve for Americans whose employers are already forcing them to bear more and more of their family's health insurance costs.”

— Ron Wyden

Family

“I believe that whether you love your job or hate your job, get laid off or are just in-between jobs, you deserve health care that can never be taken away.”

— Ron Wyden

Health

“For the amount of money that the country is going to spend this year on health care, you can go out and hire a doctor for every seven families in the US and pay the doctor almost $230,000 a year to cover them.”

— Ron Wyden

Health

“It's time to look beyond the budget ax to assure access to health care for all. It's time to look for bipartisan solutions to the problems we can tackle today, and to work together for tomorrow - building a health care system that works for all Americans.”

— Ron Wyden

Health

“Even under the best of circumstances, the road back from war is difficult.”

— Ron Wyden

War

“When the Veterans Affairs Department implemented a program to provide home-based health care to veterans with multiple chronic conditions - many of the system's most expensive patients to treat - they received astounding results.”

— Ron Wyden

Health

“Fixing health care and fixing the economy are two sides of the same coin.”

— Ron Wyden

Health

“With a host of proposals on the table and a President examining new ideas for health reform, we have an obligation to give real reform our best shot.”

— Ron Wyden

Health

“Like any business, the oil industry runs on the basic premise of supply and demand. The more supply - the lower the price. The higher the demand - the higher price. In other words, the more people who can buy oil, the higher the price of oil.”

— Ron Wyden

Business

“In today's world, it is shortsighted to think that infectious diseases cannot cross borders. By allowing developing countries access to generic drugs, we not only help improve health in those nations, we also help ourselves control these debilitating and often deadly diseases.”

— Ron Wyden

Health