Political Quotes

“I think this amendment really goes to the heart of the debate over how public housing should be managed in America. There is probably nothing more volatile with working families in America today than the thought that someone would be in need and not have a helping hand extended. Virtually everybody I talk to says if they are suffering, uneducated and want an education, if they are homeless and want to be safe in the evenings, we should do those things. All we ask is that those individuals extend the courtesy to us of trying to improve their own situation. But when you have people who live in house trailers, working a construction job, and moms at home trying to educate and care for those children, and you told them well, I tell you what, since you are having a bad month, I am the trailer park operator, I am just going to not worry about rent this month even though you are paying $25, where is the equity in that family who works to pay taxes from daylight until dark, who cares for the kids, who pays for the expenses at the grocery stores, who pays the rent on the house trailer, to say to them we are going to tax you at higher and higher rates and put money in government programs so there will be individuals who cannot read, but will not go to school; people without work, who will not get job skills? This is a revolution. It is a dramatic change in the philosophy of how we are going to try to help people.”