Political Quotes

“I rise in support of the Pitts amendment. First of all there is the flexibility; there is ability to waive. I hope Mr. Pitts will cover that. Let me read you what Ambassador Mark Dybul said. He said recent data from Kenya, Zimbabwe and urban Haiti show decline in HIV prevalence. A new study has concluded that these reductions and prevalence do not simply represent the natural course of these nations' epidemics, but can only be explained by changes in sexual behavior. This demonstrates the power of behavior changes to save lives and the importance of support for effective behavior change intervention. If people from my old neighborhood back in southwest Philadelphia heard this debate that the Congress was debating 'faithful' in this, is it a good idea or a bad idea, they would say, what is going on? As Mr. Pitts said, I would argue too that he is right. I think Biblical faithfulness is a Biblical principle. Faithfulness is a very good principle. Does anyone disagree? Now we are debating abstinence? We are saving lives. So there is flexibility. So there is a fake argument here. There is the ability to waive; and what we are doing here, we could talk about different things, they are underlying agendas. We are talking about basically are we going to save lives. Are we going to save lives. I will stipulate that Mark Dybul has forgotten more about this than this Congress knows. Because of that, I will urge an 'aye' vote for the Pitts amendment to save lives.”