Billy Tauzin Quotes (33 Quotes)

It is absolutely critical that America's public health emergency system be prepared to respond to new and emerging terrorist threats.

After reviewing the documents produced to the Committee on Energy and Commerce in connection with our investigation into the accounting practices at WorldCom Inc., we must express our grave concerns about what we have discovered,

The immediate, highest priority need, in my humble opinion, is that we build quickly the interim structures that can channel water away from population and businesses in the New Orleans area.

The timing was terrible, and having one disaster after another didn't help. I think the pictures on television of the way in which the disaster was handled also helped to turn off the public and Congress.

The Partnership for Prescription Assistance is changing thousands of lives everyday. No one's helped by a medicine that sits on a shelf and is out of reach financially.

If you're watching an ad on TV showing a drug that could save your life and you can't afford it, you have a right to be resentful. People are angry about not having access to medicine.

I was treated with a miracle drug, just like Lance Armstrong.

For a lot of people trying to decide whether to come back to New Orleans, the central question of whether the place is secure needs to get answered.

The goal of the Partnership for Prescription Assistance is to reach as many people in need as possible. Part of that effort includes educating America's Hispanic community about the hundreds of public and private patient assistance programs available to them and helping to match them with a program that best meets their needs.

Do you think anybody ought to wait three years before telling people I want my daughter to know about that right away. If it's a medicine for the sniffles.

And if citizens of New Orleans who are really contemplating coming back heard that we're really intent upon making the place secure again - regardless of whether the levees held or not - then I think a rebuilding process would really take shape.

We are proud of what the Partnership for Prescription Assistance has accomplished in this short period of time. But our job isn't done. Research shows there are thousands more people in Virginia and across the country who could benefit if they simply knew patient assistance programs were available. We are committed to reaching every one of them.

As soon as one or more of these major corporate figures is indicted and convicted for the thievery that occurred at the expense of the American investor, I think confidence will gradually come back,

Invite the best and brightest to compete for a grand prize to come up with designs, including new zoning, building codes and so forth, for New Orleans that could make it safe from water, and let the state and city pick the plan that works best for Louisiana.

Some 70 percent of Americans donated to Katrina victims.

I think we lost a great deal of sympathy and support with the way in which the crisis was handled, most importantly I think when we appeared to be grasping for too much at one time instead of identifying our priorities in a much more responsible fashion.

If the networks and the VNS system made a mistake, the first good thing to do is to say we made a mistake and many of you did, ... And the second good thing you can do is to find out how you can fix it so it doesn't happen again.

Using this VNS information, all of the networks, cable and broadcasting, effectively gave America the impression that the George W. Bush states were too close to call while the Al Gore states were falling in line for Al Gore,

When you make something as important as the medicines that keep us alive, you've got to do everything in your power to make sure those medicines reach the people who need them, especially when the people can't afford to have those prescriptions filled. The companies are committed to taking care of everyone who calls in and signs up.

You probably have to have redundant levee systems with canals in between them, like the Dutch have, to make sure that incoming water is channeled off to areas where you deal with it rather than have it drown you.

The public surely must be confused today, ... It's the job of NHTSA to come up with reasonable standards of when tires pose a risk to the consumers. NHTSA needs to ride to the rescue here and clear up this confusion very quickly.

As members of Congress, we believe it is our obligation to forward specific and credible information in our possession that could suggest a federal crime has been committed,

If it's a medicine that makes a difference in whether you're going to get cancer or not, you probably ought to get it out a little quicker.

The work being done by America's pharmaceutical research companies is the greatest hope of finding additional treatments and a vaccine for avian flu, and policy measures should be developed to encourage these efforts, not discourage them,

I think the industry finally gets it. They've lost the connection with the American public, and they've got to rebuild the trust with the American public.

Venice, Italy, survives 365 days out of every year in water; New Orleans can survive a few days of water if it has to.

New Orleans has to learn to live with water rather than in fear of water, and we need a master plan that shows us how to do this. It's so critical that we send a signal to everyone in the country that we're serious about rebuilding New Orleans.

In all too many cases, the government is responsible for the digital divide that's being talked about here at Comdex.

We tried that in America. Jimmy Carter gave us price controls on natural gas. Remember what it gave us Shortages, shutdowns, a horrible situation in parts of the country where factories couldn't operate and people went unemployed. Price caps Prices caps mean shortages, less energy.

The question is what I wanted to do with the new life God has given me. This is the mission I want to take on.

What we are interested in is What went wrong with this recall Why didn't it happen sooner

We know that many patients struggle to afford their prescription medicines and are unaware that help is available. That is why the pharmaceutical research industry is leading an aggressive campaign to inform doctors and prepare them to educate patients about the Partnership for Prescription Assistance. This new effort demonstrates our commitment to locate, inform and mobilize as many doctors as possible.

I think we're finding what may clearly end up being security fraud, ... Attempts not to hedge or put debt out of the company, which many companies do, but literally fraudulent, phony attempts to do so in violation of current accounting practices, practices that should've been discovered by Enron's auditors at Arthur Andersen.