Tom Coburn actually said...

"You beat the crap out of them when something goes wrong, so their underlying statement is never do what is best when you can do what is safe."

"I thought that was a pretty good idea, and the homeless groups said, in part, in response, 'Well, if you do that, what the appropriators will do is they will'--let us say we had, like $5 as an example..."

"We have something we call 'maintenance of effort' that we use in other programs, educational programs, when there is Federal money, we say to States, 'You have to maintain effort.'"

"I just do not think it works. And I want to be humane. We have a moral obligation to the least of these, folks who do not have a place to live, but there has got to be a better way to do this."