"the title of this hearing, 'How Welfare and Tax Benefits Can Discourage Work,' is at best a misnomer, and at worst is just fallacious non-sequitur."
"No, sir, I can tell you that they are not. But I want to stipulate, Mr. Doggett, that welfare recipients are not stupid."
"I couldn't afford to lose Medicaid. It is a benefit, and if the government wants to help people, they should."
"Perhaps you ought to expand it."
"I can tell you what the alternatives are to having $1,000 a month to pay for decent daycare."
"I would submit that people don't work just for their self-esteem or for their dignity. They need to make enough money to be able to pay the rent and put a Barbie doll under the Christmas tree at Chris..."
"I once had a job and begged my supervisor not to give me a 50-cent-an-hour raise, lest I lose daycare."
"I do want to commend you, Madam Chairman, for the reforms that you have made in the money market funds, these reforms."
"You cannot have it both ways."
"I am glad that we realize that taking care of children is work."
"You do not have to graduate from the Wharton School of Economics to understand this chart."