Political Quotes

“I simply want to make clear to everybody who might be listening tonight across America that this issue will be decided within the next few days to few weeks here in the U.S. Congress, in the House and in the Senate. If they do not think a one-size-fits-all Washington, DC, exam written that is crammed down their throats without the chairman of the subcommittee in charge of this area having some input, without the local State superintendent of public instruction having the ability to have input, but most importantly, without them as parents or teachers of their children, or as a school principal, if they do not want that crammed down your throat, we need their support now to stop this, and stop it before it goes any further. I think it holds the potential, as one of the articles that has been written suggests, of being a national calamity. I think it will be an absolute disaster if we turn the education of our children in America over to Washington, DC.”