Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, people with disabilities represent the most vulnerable and poorest group in America. People with disabilities are disproportionately minorities and have the most health problems. Yet disabilities touch us all. One in three Americans has a family member that has a disability. I myself had a family member that had a disability and know firsthand the kinds of other health problems that can be created when one has a disability and that might be directly caused by that particular disability. Conditions for people with disabilities varies greatly from State to State and the people with disabilities therefore have looked to the Federal Government to help them to improve their quality of life and to make the quality of life equal for people who live in Michigan, or Illinois, or New York, or Mississippi, or Colorado, or any other State, giving them an equal opportunity to have, if you will, the kind of help that they certainly deserve to have.”