Quotes by Tom Harkin

America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention.
– Tom Harkin
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.
– Tom Harkin
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.
– Tom Harkin
Our escalating dependence on foreign and non-renewable sources of energy is heading us down a slippery slope.
– Tom Harkin
Stem cell research holds enormous promise for easing human suffering, and federal support is critical to its success.
– Tom Harkin
The President must stop gambling with taxpayers' money and get the country back on the path of fiscal sanity.
– Tom Harkin
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.
– Tom Harkin
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.
– Tom Harkin