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As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.

Yes, I do agree we need health care reform; however, this bill badly misses the mark. Congress can and must do better for the American people.

I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs.

Bring market forces to bear on health care insurers. Creating a health care 'exchange,' one of the better ideas included in House Bill 3200, creates affordable, accessible and portable insurance for millions of Americans.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half.

Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

I believe that my clothes can give people a better image of themselves - that it can increase their feelings of confidence and happiness.

My main objective is to prepare candidates for professional baseball; however, the majority of our graduates will go home as much better qualified amateurs.

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.

I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could.

The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government.

Free enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty, to help build a strong middle class, to help educate our kids, and to make our lives better than all the programs of government combined.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.

The belief that recipients of government aid are better off the more we spend on them is remarkably persistent. No matter how many times this central tenet of liberalism gets debunked, like Brett Favre, it just keeps coming back.

The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity.

I was elected to come to an incredibly dysfunctional capital and make the government work better, and that's what I'm doing.

I don't know people who don't say, boy the government is working better now.

The Federal Government should be the last resort, not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it can better be handled privately, by voluntary organizations, or by local or state governments.

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd all probably be better for it too.

My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that smaller government is better government, and government that is closer to the people is best of all.

I believe that smaller government is better government. But I also believe that in the areas where government does play a legitimate role, we should demand that it is done better.

We say that anytime budgets are balanced and an ample savings account has been set aside, government should just stop collecting taxes. Better to leave that money in the pockets of those who earned it, than to let it burn a hole, as it always does, in the pockets of government.

You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government.

When I first ran for public office, it was with the passion and idealism of a young man who believed that government could help make our lives better, that public service was a calling and that citizenship demanded responsibilities. There was a greater good.

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.

But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings - then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life.

Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot.