Charles Whitlow Norwood, Jr. Quotes

• You’ve had some terrific print information that gets everybody’s attention in this town.

  Charles Whitlow Norwood, Jr.

• When they hear from you, it counts. That’s how we’re going to win.

  Charles Whitlow Norwood, Jr.

• What we’re really trying to do is level out the health care system. It has gotten so one-sided as more and more people have been put into managed care; in fact, about 70 percent of the patients in the country.

  Charles Whitlow Norwood, Jr.

• We represent people, and any good congressperson wants to know how their people at home feel about issues. I can tell you for sure in our office that is taken into account, and that is true for any congresspersons I know.

  Charles Whitlow Norwood, Jr.

• There is no question that managed care is managed cost, and the idea is that you can save a lot of money and make health care costs less if you ration it.

  Charles Whitlow Norwood, Jr.

• Speaker Newt Gingrich has appointed a task force, which I’m on, and over the next couple months the task force is going to try to come up with legislation that does what we’re all trying to do. I feel pretty good about the members that are on the task force.

  Charles Whitlow Norwood, Jr.

• People have tremendous power, more than the average person understands, and certainly more than even I understood before I came to Congress. When any of my constituents writes me a letter, I promise you, we’re listening.

  Charles Whitlow Norwood, Jr.

• It’s important right now to continue to have your patients contact their senators and their congresspeople to say we have a problem. We want you to help solve it, we want you to be involved.

  Charles Whitlow Norwood, Jr.

• If at the end of May we don’t, we’ll reform, regroup, decide how we’re going to go about it, but if the task force can’t come up with the bill, I’m going to push mine, and go ahead and make the changes in it that we’ve been working on now for a year or two and just go for it.

  Charles Whitlow Norwood, Jr.

• Average Americans are going to win this, not me. And not just your organization, not just the providers of health care, but the American people are going to cause this to happen. But they have to keep sending those cards and letters.

  Charles Whitlow Norwood, Jr.

Charles Whitlow Norwood, Jr. (10)

Birth:	27th July, 0941
Death:	13th February, 2007
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Dentist, Politician

About

Born in Valdosta, Georgia, Norwood graduated from Baylor School, then a military academy, in Chattanooga, TN. He then attended Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, GA and Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.. Before entering the House, Norwood operated a successful dentistry practice in Augusta. He was serving as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 until his death. At the time of his death, Norwood was the Representative of the 10th District of Georgia.

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