Christopher Shays: “sometimes a liberal is the person who sees someone drowning out 50 feet from the pier and runs to the end of the pier…”

“sometimes a liberal is the person who sees someone drowning out 50 feet from the pier and runs to the end of the pier and grabs 100 feet of rope and throws this excess rope. The rope is dangling around the person, and finally it is taut and ready to be pulled in, and that liberal takes the rope, drops it, and says, I have done my good deed and on to the next. I have criticism of conservatives if they take this position: They see someone drowning 50 feet out and they take 25 feet of rope and say, Here, I will throw 25 feet of rope. You swim halfway, and I will meet you and pull you in. They may need 50 feet of rope, but they may need something more, and I believe this side of the aisle has not taken that view. It has taken the view that we need not only give people the seed, but show them how to grow the food. But we do not necessarily give them the food indefinitely.”