Quote

Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.

Elizabeth Edwards

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Elizabeth Edwards
Age: 61 †
Born: 1949
Born: July 3
Died: 2010
Died: December 7
Attorney At Law
Attorneys In The United States
Lawyer
Teacher
Writer
Jacksonville
Florida
Mary Elizabeth Anania Edwards
Reform
Health
Successful
Care
Must
Make
Affordable
Insurance

More quotes by Elizabeth Edwards

Image
It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.
Elizabeth Edwards
Image
I don't expect to get yesterday's medicine. If I can help it, I'd like to get tomorrow's medicine.
Elizabeth Edwards
Image
Those who need a champion cannot afford compromise, in the face of forces that are powerful, persistent and pernicious and greedy.
Elizabeth Edwards
Image
We have a middle class that lives on a razor blade. So sometimes when you say poverty, you neglect a large portion of the population.
Elizabeth Edwards
Image
A lot of people have great hope, and a lot of people who have great hope live. And, some of them who have great hope die. So it's not that hope is going to save you.
Elizabeth Edwards
Image
I can't turn on the television without seeing me, or open the newspaper without seeing me and, honestly, I'm sick to death of me.
Elizabeth Edwards
Image
If I say something that ends up on the front page of Drudge, I haven't done it right.
Elizabeth Edwards
Image
Honestly, I get energized by the crowds. They feed me emotionally.
Elizabeth Edwards
Image
Life is this great big blackboard, and on it you write all the things that you do.
Elizabeth Edwards
Image
If I had lost a leg, I would tell them, instead of a boy, no one would ever ask me if I was 'over it'. They would ask me how I was doing learning to walk without my leg. I was learning to walk and to breathe and to live without Wade. And what I was learning is that it was never going to be the life I had before.
Elizabeth Edwards
Image
The photograph contains and constrains within its own boundaries, excluding all else, a microcosmic analogue of the framing of space which is knowledge. As such it becomes a metaphor of power, having the ability to appropriate and decontextualize time and space and those who exist within it.
Elizabeth Edwards
Image
I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.
Elizabeth Edwards
Image
Maybe we all change over time.
Elizabeth Edwards
Image
I hope I have important things to say.
Elizabeth Edwards
Image
In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.
Elizabeth Edwards
Image
You know, I once read a short story about how much you could tell about people from their shoes. You could tell where they had been, what they did, whether they were real walkers.
Elizabeth Edwards
Image
I come out of real life.
Elizabeth Edwards
Image
You wouldn't know I was sick unless you knew I was sick.
Elizabeth Edwards
Image
I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves.
Elizabeth Edwards
Image
I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.
Elizabeth Edwards