Senator Chuck Schumer

I do.

And my motivation, my sole motivation...

is to prevent this awful crisis from happening.

I don't want to go down the street and have people telling me how bad this is and they don't know what they're going to do and how are they going to deal with their parent or how are they going to deal with their child.

Health care is, you know, probably the most important thing to the American people of all the things the government does.

And it's at risk.

As I said, since the 60s, we have built up a health care system.

Is it perfect?

Far from it.

But is it a lot better than it was when you couldn't get any insurance and people were just, you know, and the life expectancy was whatever.

You would know the number better than me, but much lower than it is now.

And to undo that and turn the clock back, I believe I would be not fulfilling my responsibility to my constituents.

When I see that mom talking about her daughter dying, when I see that middle class family saying, what am I going to do with my 82-year-old mother who needs help in a nursing home?

When I talk to medical researchers and they say, we're on the verge of coming through with a breakthrough on Alzheimer's or pancreatic cancer or these things you know better than me, and now it's cut off, I'm motivated to act.

And I've always felt, I think I've said this to you before,

The higher you climb in politics, the fiercer the winds blow.

So when you're a senator or a congressman, the winds blow pretty fierce.

If you stick to your own internal gyroscope, and my internal gyroscope says, help the people do what the people want and need, that's the way to go.

That's what I've always done.

And as you said, sometimes it's unpopular.