Peter Shumlin Quotes

• Single payer means something different to everyone. The way I define it is that health care is a right and not a privilege.

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  Mean   Different   Care  

  "Gov. Peter Shumlin: The man who'd bring single-payer health care to Vermont". Interview with Ezra Klein, voices.washingtonpost.com. February 10, 2011.

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• 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.

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  Gmo Foods   Gmos   Want  

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Where health care has failed is in designing a cost containment mechanism that works.

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  Design   Cost   Care  

  "Gov. Peter Shumlin: The man who'd bring single-payer health care to Vermont". Interview with Ezra Klein, voices.washingtonpost.com. February 10, 2011.

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• 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.

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  Mistake   Thinking   Gmos  

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I really do believe that the basic principle that Americans have the right to know what they're buying when they buy it is going to be something that spreads across this country very quickly, and that the food manufacturers would be wise to be leaders instead of trying to block this with lawsuits and other ways of trying to get their way.

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  Wise   Country   Block  

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• You've got to remember, Vermont is a lot of beautiful mountains with valleys and small brooks that run into bigger rivers.

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  Beautiful   Running   Rivers  

  "Interview with Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin". "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 29, 2011.

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• 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.

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  America   Trying   Lasts  

  Interview with Ezra Klein, www.goodreads.com. February 10, 2011.

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