Quotes by Tom Harkin

America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention.

Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system. We wait until people become obese, develop chronic diseases, or become disabled - and then we spend untold hundreds of billions annually to try to make them better.

Obesity now contributes to the death of more than 360,000 Americans a year. The incidence of childhood obesity is now at epidemic levels. Alarm bells are going off all over the place. But our government has done virtually nothing.

Our escalating dependence on foreign and non-renewable sources of energy is heading us down a slippery slope.

Stem cell research holds enormous promise for easing human suffering, and federal support is critical to its success.

The President must stop gambling with taxpayers' money and get the country back on the path of fiscal sanity.

We don't require our astronomers to explore the heavens with 19th century telescopes, and we don't require our geologists to study the Earth with a tape measure. If we are serious about realizing the promise of stem cell research, our biomedical researchers need access to the best stem cell lines available.

While President Bush's tax give-aways for the rich are pushing us further into debt, he compensates by increasing the out-of-pocket costs to our veterans.