Quotes by Ron Wyden

• My sense is that, when you look at what people such as former Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein have said over the years, you don't go with a story unless you have two independent sources to confirm it.
• There is an old saying that all roads lead to Rome. It seems the administration so often clearly believes that no matter what the evidence was at any particular time, essentially everything led to Saddam Hussein.
• I don't care who you love. If you love this country enough to risk your life for it, you shouldn't have to hide who you are.
• The idea of a federal betting parlor on atrocities and terrorism is ridiculous and it's grotesque.
• The Bush administration did stop filling the reserve in 2002 when it helped the oil industry. Now they should do it to help the consumer.
• This house better get cleaned up in six months. The swamp is going to have to be drained pretty quickly.
• Many health care providers, particularly physicians in rural and urban areas, are leaving the Government programs because of inadequate reimbursement rates.
• It's time to look beyond the budget ax to assure access to health care for all. It's time to look for bipartisan solutions to the problems we can tackle today, and to work together for tomorrow - building a health care system that works for all Americans.
• It is hard to see Judge Roberts as a judicial activist who would place ideological purity or a particular agenda above or ahead the need for thoughtful legal reasoning.
• I think we have to ask this administration, and the President specifically, about using their political capital now to stand up for the American consumer who is getting clobbered by these gasoline and oil prices.
• Every single day, the flood of pornographic and sleazy spam grows.
• In today's world, it is shortsighted to think that infectious diseases cannot cross borders. By allowing developing countries access to generic drugs, we not only help improve health in those nations, we also help ourselves control these debilitating and often deadly diseases.