Bart Stupak Quotes

• When you start talking about the patients’ bill of rights and all the benefits that are in there, people agree with all that. What they don’t know is how are you going to pay for it.

  Bart Stupak

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  Tags in Agree, Patients

• No matter what the president or anyone tried to do on health care, they never got the headlines, because the Gulf oil spill happened. It seemed like it sucked the wind out of the whole health care debate.

  Bart Stupak

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  Tags in Wind, Debate

• When I first ran for Congress in 1992, I campaigned on a pledge to make affordable, quality healthcare a right, not a privilege, for all Americans.

  Bart Stupak

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  Tags in Privilege, Quality

• The Tea Party did not run me out. If you know me and my personality, I would welcome the challenge.

  Bart Stupak

  Topics in Challenge

  Tags in Party, Personality

• I’m pretty stubborn.

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• I believe everyone should have healthcare. In all my correspondence – I’ve been saying for years – it’s a right, not a privilege.

  Bart Stupak

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  Tags in Healthcare, Privilege

• We are not voting for health care if we do not resolve this language on public funding for abortion – no public funding for abortion.

  Bart Stupak

  Topics in Health

  Tags in Voting

• Right-to-life groups won’t fund us because we’re Democrats.

  Bart Stupak

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Right

• We believe the Senate language provides for federal subsidies for abortions. Plus there’s a language in there where you have to pay one dollar per month, every enrollee, to pay for a fund for reproductive rights which include abortion. And that’s totally against federal law. So we are saying take that out.

  Bart Stupak

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Language, Senate

• When I came to Congress, like our first panel, small business people, 64 percent of the people had health insurance. We’d buy it. Now, we’re down to about 34 percent. That’s why we have to do something on health care in this country because the cost is killing us.

  Bart Stupak

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  Tags in Like, Congress

• Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It’s simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state’s budget around.

  Bart Stupak

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Oppose

• I’ll put my progressive credentials up against anyone’s.

  Bart Stupak

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  Tags in Progressive

• All I’m asking for is the law that’s been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let’s find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.

  Bart Stupak

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Law

• I’ve had some threaten not to give Communion to me, even though they don’t know my position, just because I’m a Democrat. I’ve had cardinals refuse to shake my hand because I’m a Democrat.

  Bart Stupak

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  Tags in Communion

Bart Stupak (14)

Birth:	29th February, 1952
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician

About

Bartholomew Thomas Bart Stupak is an American politician and lobbyist. A member of the Democratic Party, Stupak served as the U.S. Representative from Michigan's 1st congressional district from 1993 to 2011. Stupak chose not to seek re-election in 2010. He departed Congress in January 2011, and was succeeded by Dan Benishek, a Republican from the Upper Peninsula. Stupak is now a lobbyist with Venable LLP.

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