Political Quotes

“My concern is children. Again, on the health and safety standards, on the quality, on the vouchers and food, it seems to me we ought to try to correct these mistakes. Again, remember, we are talking about putting 2 million adults out of 4 million adults on welfare to work over the next 5 years, out of a Nation of 270 million people. Of the 8.8 million children on welfare, 80 percent are under the age of 12, 50 percent under the age of 6--of the 8.8 million. We ought to be able to say to those infants and those children that there is a safety net here. We are going to try to see to it that your parents go to work, but for whatever reason if they are unable to do it, no matter what we do to them, you are not going to be adversely affected by this. That ought not to be that hard to do. I do not understand why we cannot find common ground on that issue as we try to achieve the goal of putting people, adults on welfare, to work without jeopardizing the children. That is the simple question.”