Political Quotes

“I suggest the current system reflects that all the care that has been expressed for children, here, has not panned out into a reality that children are cared for. That is the real issue. We can all care about children. The question is, are children cared for and by whom? What we are trying to do here, in this bill, is to make sure, not that we feel good about caring for children--I am sure the Senator from Connecticut knows that everybody in this Chamber cares for children; that is not the issue, to measure our care--it is to measure whether children are cared for and by whom. What we do here in our bill is to try to rebuild a culture that has been systematically destroyed by the welfare system to make sure that there are families to care for children; that there are communities where children are safe again. As long as you continue the welfare entitlement, the dependency structure of unlimited welfare, you will not get care for children. You will not get caring neighborhoods. You will not get caring communities. You will not have stable families. It is a reality. You are looking at it today. That is why we are here.”