Political Quotes

“If Mr. Stephanopoulos said this, ``For this President, words are actions,'' it pretty well defines the situation. I guess then saying that we should end welfare as we know it means that you have ended it. And yet in the first 3 years of this administration, nothing changed for America, not until the rubber hit the road, not until the votes were cast on the floor of this House to actually change the welfare system as written in the law did anything meaningful ever happen. The victory, while it may been driven in part by the freshman class, as our colleague from Georgia has just pointed out, it was really driven by Main Street, America. This today was and is, and I guess we can claim victory today because the President has come forward and to his credit he has said he will sign this bill, that is victory for Main Street, America, because the values that freshmen have been advocating, the ideas of changing welfare to make it work for all Americans, those in the system and those paying for the system, those ideas came not from freshmen, they came from Main Street, America.”