Political Quotes

“when the school lunch program was started back in 1946, the research that I have done indicates that the program cost about $70 million that year, and the projections indicate that by the year 2000 the food programs in the United States will be approaching $7 billion. Now, when you talk about hunger in America, I want to emphasize this evening that those of us on this side of the aisle are just as concerned about the welfare of children throughout America as those people on the other side of the aisle. They certainly do not have any sole discretion about and concern for the needs of children around this country. But when you have a program, and I might also add that in addition to this school lunch program, there are thousands of programs out there to provide help to American citizens, and that is part of the problem, because you cannot solve a $4.7 trillion deficit problem in America without coming up with new approaches and new solutions to very difficult problems. Now, all of us would like to do everything that we can do to eliminate hunger in this country. We would like to eliminate disease in this country. We would like to eliminate child abuse completely in this country. All of us agree to that. But we have a significant problem.…”