Political Quotes

“Thank you very much. I just want to say to my colleague that the point you made is so very important. These are people who have been tax-paying, law-abiding citizens of this country. I just wonder: How do people sleep at night? If they want to pull the safety net, the rug, out from under people who have always been a part of this Nation's wealth, why do they now say that they are hobos or that they are lazy when they have worked for and have earned everything they have ever received? I just don't understand how we can now say to these same people whom we applauded when they had jobs every day that ``we no longer care about you anymore.'' I just thank you for making clear that these are people who have paid into this fund. It is not a gift. It is something they have earned, and I thank you so much for that. Mr. Speaker, I would now like to yield to my colleague, to someone who joins me almost every Monday night and who brings a wealth of information to this body--the honorable Sheila Jackson Lee from the State of Texas, the gentlewoman from Texas.”