Richard Shelby actually said...

"The Federal Government, I believe, should give States the flexibility to implement critical reforms as identified on the State and local level."

"But if you cannot have it all, and you cannot--I wish you could, and I wish that I were here when we owed no money as a Nation, because I think a lot of us could get together and have a lot of good id..."

"we cannot starve the future. We cannot starve our children of food and sustenance. We cannot starve them of an education."

"Mr. Secretary, as we think of Pell grants, do we not have to think of them in the overall budget process of the Department of Education?"