Tom Harkin Quotes

If we are serious about combating the childhood obesity epidemic and improving child nutrition, then everyone must chip in -- parents, schools, and yes even Congress.

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

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

You [the Gallaudet students] have brought the deaf community together.... You are my heroes.

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

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.

There is no such thing as a pro-nuclear environmentalist.

Politics is like driving. To go backward put it in R. To go forward put it in D.

Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system.

That signal's come and gone a lot in my life-time, that prairie progressivism died . I think prairie progressivism is still there. Every once in a while, odd things take place.

When I campaigned, I'd let them throw a punch, but by gosh, I'd throw two back. I always said, the first rule in politics is never defend, always attack. I still believe that.

I've always been for immigration reform; in 2007 I just didn't feel it had enough protections.

Prions are highly indestructible.