01/14/1997
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"I wanted to prepare America for a new century."
"We cannot—there are a lot of people who believe in the information age, with things changing as fast as they are and with standards needing to be as high as they are, that we ought to just basically s..."
"If we want to preserve excellence and the socially unifying impact of public schools over the next generation, I am telling you, every school in the country has got to become like this one."
"We had the biggest reduction in welfare rolls in history."