The issues involved in amending the Clean Air Act have been difficult and the debate lengthy.

The welfare system is too hopeless to be cured by minor modifications; we must make a complete and clean break with the past.

The welfare system is worse than I expected.

It is time to begin.

This program will provide increased benefits and more sensitive treatment to those in need.

We must make a complete and clean break with the past.

This program is intended to give them the opportunity for self-support by providing jobs for those who need them.

The welfare system is worse than I had expected, and I stand by that conclusion.

There's a great deal of stigma attached to the word 'welfare.'

I am today asking Congress to totally scrap our existing welfare system and to replace it with a Program for Better Jobs and Income.

I am asking the Congress to abolish our existing welfare system, and replace it with a job-oriented program for those able to work.

It's unfair to the poor and wasteful to taxpayers' dollars.

Every family with a full-time worker will have an income substantially above the poverty line.

Those who can work will work.

This new program will accomplish the following: Dramatically reduce reliance on welfare payments.

Every time you simplify a system and remove the complexities you eliminate one chance of fraud.

This program will not be incompatible with that dream to balance the budget.

The system is neither rational nor is it fair, and the welfare system is antiwork and antifamily.