Peter Shumlin quotes

“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

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

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“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

Source : "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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“Where health care has failed is in designing a cost containment mechanism that works.”
-- Peter Shumlin

Source : "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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“You've got to remember, Vermont is a lot of beautiful mountains with valleys and small brooks that run into bigger rivers.”
-- Peter Shumlin

Source : "Interview with Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin". "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 29, 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.”
-- Peter Shumlin

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

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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.”
-- Peter Shumlin

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

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“America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.”

“Josh: So, Toby, it’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.”

Source : "Aaron Johnson Interview NOWHERE BOY". Interview, collider.com. Ocotber 6, 2010.

“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.  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.”

Source : A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.524, Macmillan

“The last day of your life is still going to be a day.”

Source : Interview with Christopher Kompanek, www.avclub.com. March 23, 2012.