“We were one vote shy from bringing down Medicare eligibility to 55. One vote shy. I'm going to fight for that one vote when I'm running in 2020, because what would that have done?”— Cory Booker, npr.org
“We do want to create a system that is of the people, for the people. Many of the policies that we advocate, whether it is Medicare for all, or cancelling out student debt, or dealing with our climate crisis, most of those policies poll at 70 percent plus.”— Ilhan Omar, cbsnews.com
“‘Medicare for all’ sounds simple, but it's not. It creates an enormous bureaucracy and really dire consequences that people don't understand.”— Dan Crenshaw, dailywire.com
“Yeah, we shouldn't deny that there's been a little bit of a populism-creep into the party. I still think the populism is far worse on the Left. I think it's far more pervasive – the Medicare for all, gonna give everything away for free type of message is really inherently impossible. That being said…”— Dan Crenshaw, dailywire.com