Political Quotes

“in the current issue of the Economist, the cover story is ``The Disappearing Family,'' and it speaks of the problem of out-of-wedlock births. It says of this Senator that I have taken this problem seriously for 30 years. It quotes an earlier statement that ``a community without fathers asks for and gets chaos.'' I am not new to this subject, and I am very much opposed to a family cap of any kind. This is not the way to deal with this baffling and profoundly serious subject. When my friend from Texas cites the projections of where we will be at the end of the century, those, sir, are my projections. It has been a field I have worked in as he has worked in his field. But the dictum of the Catholic Charities is that the first principle in welfare reform must be ``do no harm.'' These children have not asked to be conceived, and they have not asked to come into the world. We have an elemental responsibility to them. And so I hope, regarding the most fundamentally moral issue we will face on this floor, that we will not have the State deny benefits to children because of the mistakes, or what else you will say, of their parents. Mr. President, I yield back my time.”