David Scott actually said...

"I want you to think hard, man, about those helping hands, because, when you zero out the budget of the CDBG program, you are cutting off the helping hand for the poor."

"Don't cut the helping hand off."

"Without that, plus a helping hand, many helping hands, for us to come to where you are sitting, as a Cabinet official for the President of the United States, and, of course, me in my 15th year as Cong..."

"You would not be where you are sitting without that helping hand."