Political Quotes

“I subscribe and associate myself with all of her remarks, particularly her very eloquent statement on behalf of real reform and understanding that if we do not fundamentally change the delivery systems that deal with people who find themselves in the situation of needing to be on the welfare system, that we will never make any real changes that the question is not, as Mrs. Meek said, just how much money will be spent but how that money will be spent and what kinds of programs we will enact. My own personal experience on this issue, frankly, is in this area of education and training. I served, at the beginning of my career, as a legal aid lawyer representing people who found themselves on welfare. Then I was the associate director of a program called Cleveland Works, which is a job training and placement program for welfare recipients in the Cleveland area. And then both in service with the mayor of the city of Cleveland and in the Ohio State Senate, I was part of trying to deal with our welfare programs in the State of Ohio.”