Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, I also vehemently speak against my friend from Wisconsin's amendment. I thank him, though, for offering the amendment because it has made me think about something that has been an ultimate success not only for this Nation but for the region of this country in which I grew up, the region which my family is from. And the gentleman from eastern Kentucky who spoke just a few speakers ago spoke so eloquently and from his heart, I know, reminded me myself of growing up in a little town called Summit Mills in Somerset County in southwestern Pennsylvania. Back in the late 1950's, I went to one of the one-room schools he was talking about, where we had no running water. Where we had only two outhouses out back and you had the overflow that went in the creek. And that is where the kids swam with the raw sewage in the same stream, which is where you would go out to swim. We could not understand why people were dying of unusual diseases and unusual forms of cancer. We thought that half the roads were supposed to be dirt roads. Of course, certain times of the year you just did not travel from point A to point B, and people knew they were supposed to lay up supplies. After the Appalachian Regional Commission was founded 30 years ago, things began to change.”