Political Quotes

“As was mentioned earlier, today was the first day of school in Iraq; and in my visit there, we learned that America has done a great deal to rebuild the schools, although Americans will say, well, why are we rebuilding their schools and not ours. As I explained earlier, what we are doing is going in and painting existing school buildings. But helping the people of Iraq educate their children is a critically important role for America. Again, it helps us to win over their hearts and minds and to do what our colleague, the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Marshall), said, and that is have the Iraqi people side with us in this struggle. For example, for them to help our troops find an explosive device that is planted and intended to kill an American, they are the best ones who can do that. Education is a big part of that effort; and to discuss education in Iraq further, I yield to our colleague, the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Kirk).”