Political Quotes

“I wish that there was an accounting mechanism that would allow us to lump all of this together, but there is not. So my colleague from Illinois has a fair shot here at a cost of extension service and a cost of crop insurance. But when we back away from the tobacco price support program and look at the big picture, it way overpays for what it costs the U.S. Government. Mr. Chairman, I will join with anybody in this House to find a sensible way to stop young people from smoking, to make it illegal, tougher, to give more strength to the States, to outlaw vending machines, to outlaw free cigarettes and many, many other things. That is what we should do. But, Mr. Chairman, I say to my colleagues they should not kill crop insurance for small farmers and go back home to their urban districts and tell their constituents that they saved them from the horrors of tobacco. They have not done anything. They have hurt some little people and they have, in my opinion, not accomplished what they really would like to accomplish.”