Political Quotes

“I will say very briefly, because we do not have much time, it has been a tremendous pleasure working with the gentleman and the others who worked on this for many, many months, in what is truly a bipartisan and bicameral piece of legislation, to resolve the problems of welfare in the United States of America. It was a bipartisan problem, and I think it is going to take a bipartisan solution to get there. The differences between the Castle-Tanner proposal and the Archer legislation have been, I think, overstated as I have listened to the debate. Both are very tough, they end welfare as we know it, and they require work. There is unanimity of opinion that we need to reform welfare. I think what I need to do in the brief time which I have is highlight some of the differences between these two pieces of legislation so people can make up their minds which they are going to support, or, as in my case, if they are going to support both.”