"I defy other Federal programs to have that kind of accuracy rate."
"Hunger knows no age, no sex, or region of this country."
"The SNAP benefits are provided to participants at the beginning of the month, and most participants spend the benefits in the first part of the month and then have to struggle through the rest of the ..."
"What are you doing about this?"
"So there is a whole chain of people who benefit from that money that is going to food stamp recipients or from people who are going to spend it in the economy."
"Isn't Mark Zandi the economist who says that, for every dollar spent on food stamps, there is $1.74 in GDP growth?"
"If we want to live in a world of numbers and statistics and refuse to look at the plight of the people behind those numbers and statistics, then we are going down the wrong road."
"Not one single vote from the minority, not one."
"$80 billion I believe it was roughly, $70 billion or $80 billion for the AMT, which, by all accounts and by every economist who wrote about this, had not one shred of a stimulative effect."
"The beneficiaries of the estate tax are the richest 1 percent of the people in this Nation."
"what we will see is massive layoffs in education."