Political Quotes

“And, Mr. Speaker, my colleague, Mr. Fox from Pennsylvania, I can tell you in the 1980s, when the block grants were coming back and the cry was, as this comes from Washington, DC, we are going to lose our money; what do we do? We put in administrative caps. What did we say they are to be used for? Community development purposes, these block grants. What has the track record been from 1981 forward? It has been a track record of success. The bureaucracy was cut loose from here and fed right back into those economic development programs, and the gentleman knows from his State, I am sure, we have a track record of success. So this is not embarking on nothing new in the sense of doing this in past situations from Congress back to the States. But I believe that it is an issue where people knew they could demagogue, knew they could twist it, knew they could turn it and try to paint a paint brush of people that just really do not want to help the children. That is so far from the truth. I know our State has got a track record.”