Political Quotes

“I commend them for it. I draw my colleagues' attention to the exchange between our colleagues from Pennsylvania and Louisiana that comes to one of the critical elements as far as I am concerned. It is the critical distinction between what is being offered by the majority and what we are offering in the alternative. That is, Mr. President, the children. I do not think there is any debate among us here about trying to get the adults from welfare to work. There are 2 million people out of roughly 275 million that we are going to put to work. Let me begin by framing this in mathematical terms so people can get a conception in their minds of what we are talking about. We are a nation of some 270 million people, thereabouts. What we are talking about is Federal welfare, aid to families with dependent children. There are 13 million people in the United States on AFDC, aid to families with dependent children, out of a nation of 270 million. Of that 13 million, Mr. President, 4.1 million are adults and 8.8 million of that 13 million are children under the age of 18. And 78 percent, almost 80 percent of that 8.8 million are under the age of 12; roughly 50 percent of that 8.8 million are under the age of 6.”