Political Quotes

“last week this House once again passed historic welfare reform legislation. Twice before we have passed welfare reform, but twice the President has blocked that reform with his veto pen, even though candidate Clinton said he wanted to end welfare as we know it. Remember that? Mr. President, please tear down this wall to full participation in our society. Seldom has a government devised a program which has devastated so many lives in this country and only very, very rarely has the law of unintended consequences been so brutally applied. Families have been ripped apart. Attempts to work and save have been penalized, and generation after generation of children have grown up without seeing an adult go to work. This miserable welfare system must not continue. Let us replace welfare with work. Let us replace rigid bureaucracy with community and compassion, and let us replace vetoes with a signing ceremony.”