Political Quotes

“And to my colleagues here in the great Chamber of the people's House, the House of Representatives, I know of no other place in the world, only in America, that a man whose father was a devout Muslim from Kenya, Africa, who was married to a white woman from the great State of Kansas--and with all due respect to our birther friends, this man was born in the great State of Hawaii; this man is none other than Barrack Hussein Obama--could become our President, Madam Speaker, our President of all of the United States of America and its territories. I want to share with my colleagues one of the most critical issues as advocated seriously by President Obama, and that is in the field of education. I commend President Obama for his commitment to providing every child in America access to a complete and competitive education all the way from cradle to career. In recent years, the United States has drastically fallen behind other countries when it comes to education. In the most recent Programme for International Student Assessment Report published in 2009, researchers ranked the performance of 15-year-olds internationally and found that the United States ranked 17th in reading, 24th in science, and 30th in math. To make America competitive once again, Madam Speaker, President Obama has introduced several key initiatives that focus on early childhood education, that reform and invest in K 12 education and restore America's leadership in higher education.…”