Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, I hope this amendment will receive bipartisan support. What we are trying to address in this amendment is a very serious life- and-death problem in public housing across America. Several weeks ago I was taken on a tour of the Chicago housing projects. The people who took me on the tour pointed out buildings in the projects, fully occupied buildings, that were under the control of drug gangs. Despite the best efforts of security personnel and Chicago police, these gangs literally took control of housing units, terrorizing the residents, selling narcotics, brandishing weapons and firing those weapons at will. Anyone who wants this documented should read the story entitled 'There Are No Children Here,' by Alex Kotlowitz, a Wall Street Journal correspondent who followed the lives of two tiny children growing up in public housing in the city of Chicago. It is an incredible story. Mr. Chairman, the worst part of the story is the violence that takes place in public housing today.”