Political Quotes

“Every cent of the funds involved here was raised in the District of Columbia from District taxpayers. These funds are found in the budget of the District of Columbia. These funds were scrubbed and approved by the Control Board, which did so after looking at the auditor's report, after satisfying itself that the kinds of inevitable abuses we will find in this kind of operation were being addressed. It is bad enough for the Federal Government to be appropriating somebody else's money, as I speak. We should not be appropriating a cent of the money before us. It is not Federal money, it was raised by my constituents in my city. It is bad enough for Members to appropriate it, but then to insist that because they appropriated it, it is fungible with the Federal budget, is an insult to the hardworking people of the District of Columbia, and I will not have it. This is their money. Let them use their money as they please, as long as that money is used honestly and there are controls, and we have seen that there are.”