Political Quotes

“now that the first 50 days are past, I think we are beginning to see the true colors of the Republican Party. Once again they are playing Robin Hood in reverse, taking from the poor to give to the rich. When I thought about some of the things that have occurred over the last couple of weeks, it appeared to me that what we have is a party of contradictions. This is a group that said, What we are is pro-life. We believe in the sanctity of life. And I am not trying to reopen that debate, but I did find it interesting that, when they started cutting, they went after the Healthy Start Program and cut $10 million from programs that provided prenatal care. Madam Speaker, I wonder how, on the one hand, people can say they are pro-life, but take away funds that help expectant mothers take care of newborns. They took $25 million from the Women, Infants, and Children's Program, another program designed to help expectant mothers and toddlers obtain the kind of nutrition that they need to survive. It seems to me to be a strange contradiction. Next they said, Well, you know, we're the party that believes in work. Well, that is what the Republicans say. But the first thing they did was go after programs that move children, young people, from school to work. They cut a total of $3 billion, including 600,000 positions in summer jobs.”