Political Quotes

“This is only $250,000. It is a very, very small amount, and such a small amount to ensure that the cocoa and the chocolate in this country has not come to be by slave labor of children. I think that is a very, very small price to pay. There is a moral responsibility... for us not to allow slavery, child slavery, in the 21st century. This is a small amount of money, it is in the budget, it will not do any harm whatsoever; and I think that it will certainly bring us to the point that this Congress can look with pride and say that we are making an attempt to stop something that we thought did not exist anymore and only now are we being made aware of the fact that slavery is continuing to rear its ugly head in the year 2001. I want to just again urge my colleagues to support this. This should have bipartisan support because again we are talking about children and we are talking about slavery. I do not think the American people would want to knowingly eat chocolate or cocoa that was harvested by children who have been tricked into slavery.”