We are hoping to create the demand, because we are going to introduce a Caribbean crude export ban lift just for the Caribbean Basin and Mexico for the exports of petroleum products and increase that demand so it will increase more people…

With the economic sanctions in place, in fact they are so tough that Iran was starving. You know, people were having all these hard times. But while they were doing that, they were funding Hezbollah, they were funding Hamas.

I would like to work with you on that.

Is there anything that is being held up in that program or that needs to be expedited?

Do we treat our animals better than we do our children?

No offense, but those are kind of common sense things, that if we put more money into the system, in people's hands, it is going to increase their buying and purchasing power.

We are not going to work ourselves out of this until we change something.

I appreciate you all being here to discuss this so we can reform the nutrition program so we get the best benefit for the end-user, and that the American taxpayers' dollars go to wise use.

Somewhere the cycle has to be brought--and I am all for helping people get into a system, get them educated, get them to move beyond that so that we break that cycle.

I know this is at the risk of being very controversial, but if we don't treat the underlying problem...

When that mother comes in, the single mother comes into a health clinic and talk about the responsibility of raising that child.