Quotes by Jim Cooper

"Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about government's failure to fix real problems."

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"This Congress is simply not doing its job under Republican leadership."

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"Equality under the law is the slow triumph of hope over history."

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"Almost every economist agrees that the American health care system is unsustainable. Medical care is so expensive that it is busting all of our budgets - government, business, and personal. Eventually, the medical price bubble will pop. What, then, are the alternatives?"

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"If we don't change, millions of American families are just one medical emergency, or one layoff, away from financial disaster and bankruptcy."

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