Pat Ryan actually said...

"I think the key in food stamps is to turn it into a work activation grant, not a block grant..."

"One in six people are in poverty today. Our rates are the highest they have been in a generation."

"I want to make people prosperous and self-sufficient. He said he wanted to turn the poor from being tax-eaters into taxpayers."

"We need to, when we are having these discussions, not talk about 'those people' or 'welfare people.'"