Peter Shumlin famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I suspect I'm the only politician in America who won an election in this last cycle with TV ads saying I was going to try to pass the first single-payer system in America.
-- Peter Shumlin

#America #Trying #Lasts
Single payer means something different to everyone. The way I define it is that health care is a right and not a privilege.
-- Peter Shumlin

#Mean #Way #Privilege
Where health care has failed is in designing a cost containment mechanism that works.
-- Peter Shumlin

#Design #Care #Cost
You've got to remember, Vermont is a lot of beautiful mountains with valleys and small brooks that run into bigger rivers.
-- Peter Shumlin

#Beautiful #Running #Rivers
The entire EU has labeling for GMOs, and is simply saying let's let consumers know what they're buying, let's let them choose. I think it's a huge mistake by the food manufacturers of America not to be saying let's let consumers know. Let's let them know, let them decide.
-- Peter Shumlin

#Mistake #Thinking #Gmos
American consumers are not saying they will not buy GMO foods. What they're saying is "I want to know. I want to know." EU consumers are much happier because they know what they're buying, and they've seen a continued increase in sales.
-- Peter Shumlin

#Gmo Foods #Gmos #Want

America didnâ€™t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.
Josh: So, Toby, itâ€™s election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even those citizens that try to destroy it? Toby: God bless America.
It's funny because if you ever ask anyone in England to try and do a Beatles accent, no one knows what they really sound like. If you ask anyone in America, they would try and give it a go. English people just know their songs.
The eyes of that species of extinct giant, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara as our eyes do now.
What hard evidence is there that Obama doesn't want ebola in America?
The chief danger of the Church today is that it is trying to get on the same side as the world, instead of turning the world upside down. Our Master expects us to accomplish results, even if they bring opposition and conflict. Anything is better than compromise, apathy, and paralysis.Â God give to us an intense cry for the old-time power of the Gospel and the Holy Ghost!
If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.
Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.
Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments.
The last day of your life is still going to be a day.

Peter Shumlin famous quotes

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