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."

“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

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“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

“If you like the health insurance that you have you should be able to keep it, but if you don't like the health insurance you have, you should be able to choose something else.”

— Ron Wyden

Health

“Many health care providers, particularly physicians in rural and urban areas, are leaving the Government programs because of inadequate reimbursement rates.”

— Ron Wyden

Government

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Men and women who have served in harm's way experience higher rates of divorce and suicide. Many battle the debilitating effects and stigma associated with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.”

— Ron Wyden

Experience

“When I was 27 years old, I organized legal aid clinics to help low-income seniors. It was a life-altering experience.”

— Ron Wyden

Experience

“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

“Without Free Choice Vouchers, there is little in the health reform law that discourages employers from increasingly passing the burden of health care costs onto their employees.”

— Ron Wyden

Health

“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

“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

“Rather than waiting for future trials to determine rules that will impact every citizen, Congress should step in and write a law that takes every American's rights into consideration.”

— Ron Wyden

Future

“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

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

— Ron Wyden

Health

“I believe the most important aspect of Medicare is not the structure of the program but the guarantee to all Americans that they will have high quality health care as they get older.”

— Ron Wyden

Health

“With the loss of Free Choice Vouchers, hundreds of thousands of workers will now be forced to choose between their employers' unaffordable insurance or going without health care.”

— Ron Wyden

Health

“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

“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