We have to change this, as they have in Cincinnati where school boards and teachers unions have worked together in partnership.

It is clear to me, if you look at the job profile, where 89 percent of the new jobs will require more than a high school education.

We still have to balance the budget.

I'm very proud of all of you who have helped Bob Graham and helped Buddy MacKay and helped a lot of us.

I want them to know that we're working every day for them and their future in Washington.

We cannot afford either to be complacent or to be divided among ourselves about small things.

The most important thing we have to do is to make sure that our children have met certain national standards in basic courses.

I certified Mexico because in the last year, we have achieved an unprecedented level of cooperation on counternarcotics.

I think we understand today, intuitively, that education holds the key to our future in the 21st century.

This is a big problem for us.

Children that have parents who work with them and deal with this issue are much less likely to be in trouble.

We need to talk about it, because those muscle relaxants are—if you think about it, I don't know if you've ever had a muscle spasm, but I have.

We have to take a lot of responsibility here, too.

The biggest increase in drug use among children under 18 by far has been marijuana.

I'm especially proud that as we build our infrastructure, we are going to help build better lives for people who are moving off welfare.

This bill proves that that is not true.

That means that this transportation bill literally will be our bridge into the 21st century.

We're here because the number one goal of our antidrug strategy is to persuade young people to stay away from drugs in the first place.