Political Quotes

“With respect to this list, I know in this bill--and I have not read every page of all of this--my belief is veterans are exempted, also. I say to the Senator from California, having worked on this issue for quite some time, I think you may have a legitimate point with respect to a refugee who is 90 years old who is in this country and has been here for a long time as to whether we want to knock them off this system. I suggest to the Senator that, while I will not be a conferee, I would be sympathetic and would communicate my sympathy with respect to some very difficult, isolated cases for the very old or the severely disabled who may be on these programs today. But yours goes well beyond that. I mean, I think we can look at the hard cases, but I think what your bill does is basically let people who signed a document--it is true that it is not a legally binding document, but I can guarantee you when they set that in front of them, and it is fairly legal looking, when they signed that--I mean, I do not know about you, but when I sign a document, put my name on something saying I am going to do something, I want to live up to that end of the bargain. We want them to live up to their end of the bargain. What your bill does is let them off the hook.”