Political Quotes

“I think of a great Congressman who represented the district that I now represent many years ago, a gentleman by the name of Harold Cooley, who at that time chaired the Committee on Agriculture in the U.S. Congress. It was his task to chair the Agriculture Committee during and right after World War II. Many of our young people who went before the draft in World War II failed their physical. Congressman Cooley felt so strongly that he attached an appropriation and an authorization piece to a military authorization bill, defense bill, to provide for school lunches for the children of this Nation. Prior to that time, there had not been a hot lunch for children in our public schools across this country. I set that tone because there are many who today say this is not the role of the Federal Government, or that is not the role of the Federal Government. Well, until about 1945, 1946, it had not been the role of the Federal Government to participate in the school lunch programs, either.”