Political Quotes

“It is, and we are very pleased because we really are hopeful. We are very, very optimistic about the possibilities for stemming the tide of teenage pregnancies. We believe that you can create real prevention. It does cost money, and some of the work that is being done that has helped in this area under the title XX is now threatened, and we believe that it is important for us to say to everybody that, if you really care about this issue, if you want to do something to stop babies from having babies, if you really want to get a hold of poverty in America, then we will invest some dollars to create opportunities for these young people and recognize that many of them are from so-called dysfunctional families, families where they, they come from one-parent families, where fathers are missing, and the cycle, this vicious cycle, continues because we have done nothing really to break the cycle. We know everything we need to know about poverty, and one thing we know for sure is that when poor children bear children, that those children are going to be poor, and most likely those children are going to be the school dropouts. These are going to be the children with health problems. These will be the children who will be caught up in poverty and will not be successful. They will drop out of school because they are being born into the same conditions that their parents were born into when we do not break this cycle.”