Political Quotes

“I am indebted to the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Levin) and the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Portman) for taking a good idea and nationalizing it. This bill deals with alcohol abuse, drug abuse, tobacco abuse, and researchers know, perhaps it is in the biology of young people, to get a person hooked, get them hooked when they are young. So it is impossible to overemphasize the importance of reaching people early. This is an extraordinary bill for the way it leverages almost nothing. It essentially goes into communities and says, here is a little bit of money, let the community do it. What we are doing here with these grants is to say that communities can do far more cheaply and devotedly what it takes a lot more professionals to do if we do not get in there early. I want to mention a grant that we have in the District of Columbia. We have only one; it is a $100,000 grant. The grants are very competitive. The grant in the District of Columbia is an example of what the faith-based community can do.”