Political Quotes

“yes, obviously many of the comments made by my friends and colleagues who seem to be supportive of the idea but cannot bring themselves to vote for it, most of what they have said is quite true. It does cut other programs, it does cut programs in Africa, the African Development Bank. It does cut programs in the World Bank. It cuts those programs by three-fourths of 1 percent. It cuts them by three-fourths of 1 percent. I think they can afford to be cut that much. Mr. Chairman, we spoke about Africa. Let me tell Members two things about Africa: Every 3 weeks, there are 1 million additional people in Africa over what there were 3 weeks earlier. In 25 years, not 50 years, not 100 years, in 25 years, the population of Africa will have more than doubled. Mr. Chairman, we can fritter away our monies to the African Development Bank or we can make family planning help available to the hundreds of millions of couples in Africa and other continents and in other nations around the world who want it.”