Political Quotes

“I must tell the gentleman in all sincerity that we somehow believe, or seem to believe, that people who live in the Virgin Islands or people who are living in Guam or people who live in Samoa or people who live in Puerto Rico somehow never contribute, because they happen to live outside the 48 States or the 2 States that happen to be removed from the contiguous United States. That is not the case. These are people like the gentleman standing right next to me, who has constantly contributed. Whether he is a Member of this Congress or not, he has contributed. I think we should recognize that there are children in the Virgin Islands and in other territories that will contribute. For us to say that we are going to save $5 million, and at the same time we are talking about depriving these children of a chance to become educated in an area, a territory that we are responsible for, seems very mean spirited.”