Political Quotes

“If ever there were a cause that ought to bring the Senate together, fighting childhood obesity is exactly the kind of thing where we ought to be teaming up. The majority leader and I believe our legislation will help launch a national mobilization to reduce and prevent the epidemic of childhood obesity and help our kids grow up healthy in America. Today, kids are eating greater quantities of less healthy foods. They are exercising less and less. Childhood obesity has doubled during the past 30 years. In my home State, it is far and away one of our most serious emerging health problems. Ten percent of the 8th graders and 7 percent of the 11th graders in my State are overweight. So, in my view, what we have is nothing short of an epidemic of kids who are not as healthy as they could be and they need to be and not as healthy as children were in previous generations. These kids today have a host of health problems that promise to worsen if nothing is done to change them.”