Political Quotes

“I include in the Record a March 8, 2021, Politico article titled: ``Biden's welfare flip-flop,'' which points out that President Biden was once an ardent supporter of commonsense welfare reforms, including work requirements. [From POLITICO, March 8, 2021] West Wing Playbook--Biden's Welfare Flip-Flop (By Alex Thompson and Theodoric Meyer with help from Allie Bice) Joe Biden, the young senator, would be surprised at Joe Biden, the elderly president. When he first ran for president in 1988, 44-year-old Biden was one of the Democrats challenging what he called ``liberal orthodoxy'' on issues like welfare. ``Our handouts are not enough,'' Biden said at Princeton University in a May 1987 speech meant to beef up his policy profile ahead of a June campaign launch. ``Government subsidy is not the ultimate answer to the problems of the poor.'' In November 1988, he penned a column in his local Newark Post: ``We are all too familiar with the stories of welfare mothers driving luxury cars and leading lifestyles that mirror the rich and famous,'' he wrote, parroting Republican critiques of the program.…”