Danny K. Davis Quotes

You cut their money back, for one thing... I go back a long way with the NEA.

The intelligence community gets hurt through sequestration.

Funding for sports (and the arts) are often the first things facing the chop in difficult times.

Not reforming the NHS would have been a much easier decision for me as secretary of state to have taken. We could have just protected the NHS from cuts, put in an extra £12.5bn and left it there. But sooner or later the cracks would have started to show. New treatments would have been held back.

I do believe that Planned Parenthood provides vital services to those in need and disagree with its funding cuts contained in the H.R. 1 package.

I'm for increased funding for the Centers for Disease Control.

I did not believe and I do not believe that Planned Parenthood should be defunded.

Although I believe deeply that the Children's Health Insurance Program and the Community Health Center program are invaluable, I reject the notion that we cannot reauthorize these programs without plundering other equally vital programs.

We are united around a simple goal, and that is keeping the government open while protecting our constituents from the harmful effects of Obamacare.

As Congress battles over spending and cost cutting, it is imperative that funding for math education programs does not fall victim.

We got to protect Medicaid.

I am opposed to the privatization of the Veterans Affairs Department and will continue to make sure the VHA is fully funded.

I will continue to pave the way and share my health journey with the world until I find a cure and proper diagnostic testing for this silent killer called Lyme disease.

I'm the only one in America who belongs to the 'Cure Cancer' party, so if you give money to cancer, like Harry Reid and Max Baucus, some of these guys really helped us raise big money for cancer, I give them big money for their reelections.

When former president Lyndon B. Johnson unveiled his plans for the program that would become Medicaid, he reflected on the future of public policy in the United States.

Trying to stretch the mission of a health program like Medicaid, as a way to launder redistributionist goals, ends up serving nobody well.

Lyme disease has become a fast epidemic worldwide. I am determined to help find a cure and figure out a way to share knowledge with the millions of people struggling with this debilitating disease.

There's no reason to continue including language in the federal spending bill to prohibit the CDC and NIH from studying the causes or effects of gun violence on public health.

People have been very strong against Obamacare since I was first elected, and they still feel that way. They want us to work to get rid of it. They also are very strong for keeping the government running.

I voted with most of my colleagues in the U.S. House to reject a farm bill that would have cut $20 billion from the SNAP program.

I will not support a federal budget that cuts funds for sanctuary cities, states, or universities.

While I am prepared to look at all options and to think 'outside the box' for effective treatments, I rightly resisted efforts to provide an unproven drug on demand to the American public.

The only reason I ever shared my health journey with the world was because I felt it to be my duty to sufferers that are bed-ridden and dying because there has yet to be found a proper diagnostic test for Lyme Disease in this country.

I always want to make sure we protect our soldiers' pay if there is a shutdown of any kind.

Medicaid is a deeply flawed program.