I think that this law, this reauthorization, has kept the good parts of No Child Left Behind.
I think requiring having performance targets is really important.
I think the good part is it brought us--you know, this was 10 years ago. It brought us to a standards-based education sy...
The bad part of the law was it was a one-size-fits-all.
For a number of years the Park Service has had a successful program known as the Natural Resource Challenge.
I'm hopeful, by the way, that we will find a way forward and our economy will return to a robust condition and then we c...
I did want to acknowledge the wonderful work that the MVF does.
It's great to see these children back here who have joined us.
An unfit country is not a strong country and a fit country, by definition, will be a strong country.
Do you have anything else you'd like to offer for the record at this point?
I'm deeply committed because it has been my family to do so.
We're over biased. We're Westerners. As my friends from California remind me, we're Rocky Mountain Westerners.
Would that be one of the other best practices, perhaps, that could be applied to other parks dealing with their cultural...
It's a defective gene.
I think you can understand why I keep asking that question. It's both because I want to draw attention to the economic b...
We should go the extra mile to ensure that it doesn't happen moving forward.
Churchill also said that you can always count on the Americans to do the right thing after they've tried everything else...
Powerfully stated and completely on point.
