"the more we can do to lift people out of poverty, the better our budgetary future will look."
"Nancy Pelosi, who spoke in this Committee just at the very beginning, said that a budget is a statement of your values."
"I am asking Speaker Pelosi and the House Democrats to pass a budget."
"I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. We live in a land of plenty. Poverty is evil. And government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary, and there are people in distress."
"People are hungry in this country. We need to do something about it."
"Of course, I want to pay a special greeting to Reverend Barber. His work as the leader of the Moral Monday, the inspiration and the leader of the Moral Monday movement in North Carolina, has as moved ..."
"One of the things that the civil rights movement, I think, taught us was that individual morality is not enough."
"I am very familiar with the critical need for many of these programs, as Rochester, New York, which I represent, has an overall poverty rate of 33.1 percent."
"There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it."
"We have siloed these issues that can't be siloed. Poverty, systemic racism, systemic ecological devastation, a war economy must be seen together."
"Living wages--we are saying folk ought to have a living wage if they work hard."
"A moral economy would save taxpayers billions of dollars."