Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, when we debated this question of restricting aid to the very poorest, and that is what we are talking about, the bill says we should do less than we have been doing for the very poorest people. The argument in favor of cutting back on what we do for the poorest of the poor, and remember that among the poorest of the poor, and many of them are just children and we are talking about small children who made the mistake of being born to very poor parents. The argument was with regard to public housing; if we do not cut back on what we are doing for the poorest of the poor, we will hurt them. The gentleman from Louisiana said well, maybe we are going to be doing less for the poorest of the poor, but we will be improving the quality in the housing projects by reducing economic segregation. Well, this amendment is one to which that argument simply does not apply, despite the effort of the gentleman from Iowa to try and drag it in sideways. The fact is that in public housing we have concentration by definition of people who are in public housing.”