"I had a problem with cops pulling me over all the time for speeding. When I was doing Hill Street Blues, the cops said how much they loved the show as they were writing me up; meanwhile my insurance went through the roof"

"Now is not the time to give greater protections to pharmaceutical companies that put unsafe drugs like Vioxx on the market. Such protections have nothing to do with the liability insurance crisis facing doctors and should be stripped from this bill"

"There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?"

"Skyrocketing insurance premiums are debilitating our Nation's health care delivery system and liability insurers are either leaving the market or raising rates to excessive levels"

"Who's paying the million bucks? The insurance company. We've been trying for years to get the insurance industry to say to the gun industry, We won't insure you unless you have policies that will reduce the likelihood of guns falling into the wrong hands easily"

"The automatic stabilizer is unemployment insurance, food stamps, additional coverage of Medicaid"

"When I came to Congress, like our first panel, small business people, 64 percent of the people had health insurance. We'd buy it. Now, we're down to about 34 percent. That's why we have to do something on health care in this country because the cost is killing us"

"Quality child care, health insurance coverage, and training make it possible for former welfare recipients to get, and keep, jobs"

"Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table"

"Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders"

"For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull"