Political Quotes

“I have received a list of some 36 organizations supporting the Urban Recreation and At-Risk Youth Act of 1994. It does substantively change the basic law that we wrote, written actually by a mentor of the gentleman from California and myself, the former chairman of the subcommittee at that time, the gentleman from California, Mr. Phil Burton. I think that Congressman Thomas-- and I appreciate his support for this--he points out rightly that if we do not get appropriations, good laws, good policies do not serve their desired ends. But at least I think with the type of reawakening that is occurring in terms of the recognition of youth and their relationship to violent crime, which has come to grip our society, that we have an opportunity to do some investments, some seed money with programs like this which will have a great return in terms of saving money at the other end of the spectrum when in fact we are dealing with people on the streets and dealing with the violence.”