Last night we passed the most extensive update to the Medicare program since the program's creation in 1965, ... The effort was bipartisan.

We should not have a government program that determines if you're going to pull the plug on grandma.

There is a lot of waste in government-run programs generally, and a lot of waste and fraud and misuse of money in Medicare and Medicaid that can be saved.

Its remarkable that better management of the Medicare program has achieved the same level of savings in just one year as the Senate did in a five-year budget bill passed just last week,

We cannot continue to have the same program that we have, ... [Medicare] is now noted more for what it does not do than what it does do.

Selling drug secrets violates a trust that is fundamental to the integrity of both scientific research and our financial markets.