Political Quotes

“I support the gentlewoman on her position on nutrition. School lunch, school breakfast are extremely important programs. They will all be apparently put into this nutrition block, although we have not been given the information as to how this will be done. They say it will be somewhat separate, but we know we have so many needs in that School Lunch Program. We have different students, those that get the free lunch, the reduced lunch, the paying students, and we have just finished and completed a deep study of the nutritional values of those lunches. I am afraid this will be lost in this block grant also, because they have not shared with us yet what they intend to do with the School Lunch Program. While I was sitting in my office listening to the monitor, the gentleman from California stated that the Democrats, the majority party, had turned their back on our troops in the Persian Gulf. That really hurt me, particularly coming from a friend like the gentleman from California. The gentleman from California and I voted differently on that war. We both voted our consciences.”