Medicare debates in Congress should result in better…

“With all the debates about whether or not God is dead, if he isn't he had better have Medicare!”

— Anton Szandor LaVey

History suggests that attempts to privatize Medicare by relying on private companies to offer Medicare benefits in rural America simply will not work.

— Bennie Thompson

Medicare provided guaranteed equal coverage, something that the private sector could not

— Bennie Thompson

Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program, shore up…

— Bennie Thompson

A common misconception is that the costs of health care are cheaper in rural America, when in fact the reality is that they are…

— Blanche Lincoln

I think the Democrats have - we really have failed to be in rural America, in the sense of having our leaders spending time…

— Tom Vilsack

Sixteen percent of our population is rural, but 40 percent of our military is rural. I don't believe that's because of a lack of…

— Tom Vilsack

Go walk the streets of Beijing. It's pretty hard to argue it isn't a modern city. Now, if you go outside [of Beijing], in…

— Michael Bloomberg

I wanted to tell a story about women who live in the rural part of America - what their lives were like, what their…

— Nia DaCosta

The [Democratic] party's become an urban party, and they don't get rural America. They don't get agriculture.

— Collin Peterson

The levels of poverty in 1933's rural America were unimaginable to us now. The 1933 Farm Bill, which introduced unprecedented government control over agriculture,…

— Debbie Stabenow

The idea of windmills conjures up pleasant images - of Holland and tulips, of rural America with windmill blades slowly turning, pumping water at…

— Lamar Alexander

“But maybe rural America isn't dying so much as it's Shucker-ing: adjusting, adapting, becoming something new, getting a new outdoor sign and adding jalapeno…

— Monica Hesse

There's no question that [Donald] Trump got elected because of rural America. And our party still is in denial. They don't get it.

— Collin Peterson

Hillary Clinton was in rural America during the Iowa caucuses, but I think the nature of a campaign makes it more difficult once you…

— Tom Vilsack