Political Quotes

“At the same time as the Republican reverse Robin Hood plan is going, taking it from those who need it most, giving it to those who have the most, they are also taking nearly $300 billion from SNAP. SNAP is for food. Food is medicine. You are going to make people even more sick if those children don't have food. There was one time when Medicaid first began that one of the people who was starting community health centers around the country insisted-- insisted--with the Federal Government that food be counted as medicine because it is about health. Children who do not have access to food are the ones who suffer the most. People ask me: What is your why? Why did you ever decide to leave home and come to Congress? I have five children. The idea that one in five children in America lives in poverty and goes to sleep hungry at night in the greatest country that ever existed in the history of the world, I just couldn't handle that. That is what took me from kitchen to Congress and housewife to House Speaker, to feed the children. When Matthew says: 'When I was hungry, you fed me,' in the Gospel of Matthew, what do we do with that? Just tear it up.”