Chuck Todd Quotes

[Obamacare] was going to be the Republicans' big issue, and they're not talking about it because it's working.

Vote Republican if you like, but don't kid yourself that a Republican president would replace Obamacare with anything at all.

An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.

Efforts to repeal Obamacare are misguided, dangerous, and just another instance of Republicans fighting the political wars of years past. But, health care shouldn't be about politics; it must be about helping people lead healthier lives.

This is all disgraceful and underscores how imperative it is that Obamacare be fully repealed and that the newly elected GOP Congress get a backbone and stand up to this cadre of scofflaws.

Health care is still the number-one issue out there. Someone who seizes it, I think, will do very well in an election. Let's face it: Clinton's two big issues were the middle class tax cut, which he dropped, wisely, at the time to help reduce the deficit, and health care. That's what he ran on.

Make no mistake, a 'yes' vote on the Democrats' health care bill is a vote for taxpayer-funded abortions.

What is at stake in the debate over health care is more than the mere crafting of policy. The issue is now the identity of the Democratic Party.

Obama achieved something in his first year with health care that successive presidents have been unable to achieve.

The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy's deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed in 1978 or '79.

I don't know if there is a Democrat who necessarily doesn't believe health care is a right instead of privilege. There is a significant between us and the Republican Party on that issue.

Seven presidents before him - Democrats and Republicans - tried to expand health care to all Americans. President Obama got it done.

We want to repeal the ObamaCare tax. We want to save middle class families from European health care. And that's what we're going to do as a party and that's what Mitt Romney will do on day one.

Republicans would have preferred the court overturn the health care bill, an act that would have underscored Obama's biggest liability - the perception among voters, including those who like and trust him, that he has been ineffective.

Mr. Obama still has time to reverse course. A great deal depends on it. To fail on health care yet again might well be the 'Waterloo' Republicans dream of.

I think the thing that the American people want is for the divisive debate on health care to stop.

We were elected in a wave because the people in America, if they had a single issue that troubled them the most, it was that health care vote.

My goodness, the Democrats have just become the party of punishment, and they are carrying that to the extreme when it comes to health care.

We are voting on this measure again so that the new members of the House can have their chance to vote against Obamacare.

I say to people who are opposed to the Affordable Care Act, What is the alternative?” I don’t hear any answers.

The Republicans do not believe that health care is a right. They believe that health care is a privilege, no a right. We Democrats believe taht health care is a right.

If we Republicans celebrate that we have repealed Obamacare, and health insurance premiums keep going up, the voters will tar and feather us, and rightly so.

If health care is a $2.7 trillion industry, and a huge percentage is paid by the government, then you have to be involved in politics to make a difference.

Republicans and others who are in anguish over the possibility of socialized medicine ought to have to explain their ideology to a mother with a sick newborn. They ought to have to explain how this nation can debate health care and not mention how abysmal ours is.

The basic right to quality and affordable health care is under assault by Donald Trump and Republicans in Washington.