Political Quotes

“I am delighted to hear the Senator from Delaware discuss some aspects of President Bush's time that aren't as well remembered, including his amendments to the Clean Air Act, on which the Senator from Delaware and I have worked. In June of 1992, President George Herbert Walker Bush and his wife Barbara were walking across the South Lawn on a hot, sunny day to make a major announcement about school choice. Barbara turned to the President and said: George, you have on the wrong pants. The President of the United States turned around, walked back in the White House, changed into the proper suit, came back out and made the announcement, one of the biggest of his time as President--to ask the Congress to provide one-half billion dollars to States and cities like Milwaukee and Wisconsin, which wanted to give low-income families choices of better schools for their children. Before that, I can recall a 3 p.m. or so meeting on January 17, 1991. The meeting was about educational assessment--a very dull subject. The President had called it in the Cabinet Room. Governor Carper will remember educational assessment from his days as Governor. The meeting went on and on. The President got up and left and came back after about 10 minutes. The rest of us thought very little about it.…”