Political Quotes

“I failed to mention, and I thank the gentlewoman from California for yielding, that before I came to Congress, our district was represented by the Honorable Lewis Stokes. Congressman Stokes made a huge effort to see that public housing had the funding that it needed. One of his real reasons for doing so was the fact that both he and his brother, the former mayor, Carl Stokes, former Ambassador Stokes, were both raised in public housing. At the public housing unit in Cuyahoga County, they made a museum to Carl and Lewis Stokes for the work that they had done in that community, where their mother by herself raised two young men. We have to think about it like this, there may be another Carl and Lewis Stokes actually residing in public housing across this country. If we do not continue to fund a program such as this so that they can be inspired, so they can have an opportunity to live in a community that is free of drugs, we may be in a dilemma that we do not want to find ourselves in. Again, I plead to my colleagues to listen to what we are saying, to listen to people who have experience and background and knowledge of what is going on in public housing.”