Political Quotes

“I want to say a little bit about HUD. We are hearing a lot and a lot in this bill beats up on HUD, and I want to acknowledge, HUD has been badly run, because from 1981 to 1989 under Ronald Reagan, the Secretary of HUD was Samuel Pierce, and rarely in the history of America under that Republican administration has any Federal department been run so incompetently and corruptly at the same time. They rarely did anything at all and when they did anything, it was likely to be crooked. The problem we now have is that the poor people in this country are going to be penalized by savage cuts in HUD which are a consequence in part of mismanagement of that Republican rule. With Samuel Pierce having presided under Ronald Reagan over the most corrupt administration and the most inept in recent memory, it is a very cruel thing now to penalize the poor people today, and so these cuts in HUD which are being justified by HUD mismanagement are a clear case on the part of the Republican Party of killing your parents and claiming justification because you are an orphan.”