After obtaining pre-approval by mid-June from the Senate ethics committee, I issued a letter directing my trustees to sell any remaining HCA stock in my family’s trust.
BILL FRISTThe best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.
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Space offers extraordinary potential for commerce and adventure, for new innovations and new tests of will. As Americans, we can’t help but reach for the stars. It’s our nature. It’s our destiny.
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From blood banking to the modern subway, from jazz to social justice, the contributions of African Americans have shaped and molded and influenced our national culture and our national character.
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The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands.
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As a matter of principle, we believe all Americans deserve affordable, available, and reliable quality health care.
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I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend and can extend to that legal entity of a union between what traditionally in our Western values has been defined as between a man and a woman.
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Education brings about opportunity, and in turn inspiration.
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Congress should be forward thinking in the policies we set, instead of waiting until catastrophe looms.
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Personal savings accounts to me are one of the most powerful things, not necessarily in saving, solvency, or bankruptcy of the program, but in guaranteeing, the words I used a few minutes ago, a safe and secure retirement for our seniors.
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I believe that marijuana is a dangerous drug and that there are less dangerous medicines offering the same relief from pain and other medical symptoms.
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The American people expect and deserve a government that works and leaders who work together.
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As a physician I have sympathy for patients suffering from pain and other medical conditions.
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Social Security, a critically important, great program which does serve as the cornerstone of support for senior citizens, now faces challenges that threaten its long-term stability and well-being. The facts are there. The facts are crystal clear.
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As a matter of principle, we believe patients should be able to see the right doctor at the right time. As a matter of principle, we believe nothing should interfere with that doctor-patient relationship.
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There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.
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In April, I asked my staff to determine if Senate rules and relevant laws would allow me to direct the trustees to sell any remaining HCA stock.
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The notion that you have a blind trust but you can tell your trustee when to sell stock in it just doesn’t make any sense. It means you have a seeing eye trust and not a blind trust. It’s ridiculous.
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America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can’t afford it, access it and doctor’s can’t provide it.
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Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education.
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The enemies of freedom will not prevail.
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America is moving forward and gaining strength. We have been tested, and we have proven ourselves to be a tough, resilient and resourceful nation.
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We are a strong, robust, and prosperous nation. Optimism is the essence of our success. It drives our creativity and emboldens our entrepreneurial spirit. It is what makes us invest in the future and accomplish our highest aims.
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It is very important that the president thematically shows where we’re going in terms of the vision and an agenda.
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We have determined enemies who will use any means available to take the lives of as many Americans as possible.
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This legislation confronts the human truth that the need for clean water knows no borders, and proper management and intervention can be a currency for peace and international cooperation.
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The United States has put more money on HIV, AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis than any country in the world and it’s having an impact real quick.
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The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.
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