Political Quotes

“Reclaiming my time, top down is just dead wrong. I want to rebut one other argument in support of national testing, and that is, the proponents of this idea said, well, States can opt out, and Lynne Cheney, in writing this article which I commend to all of my colleagues here in the Congress and to all of America, points out that even if States choose to opt out, a Federal test will strongly influence the textbooks because they are only a handful of textbook companies, and they are going to write those textbooks to such a national task. And it seems to me the whole notion of, well, one or two States, Arizona, can opt out; heck, Arizona opted out of daylight savings time, one of, I think, only two States in the Nation which did. But in this field, where Arizona just said, we do not want that national test, the textbooks we would have to go purchase would be driven by that top down Bill Clinton dictated, but I do not care if it was Ronald Reagan dictated top down, one-size-fits-all standard, and I think it is a mistake.”