"the way out of poverty is education, but education for something that actually gets you to where you need to go"
"the return on taxpayer investment is what we are concerned about, and that it is fair."
"While I was home in the district in August, I visited all 22 counties which I have, and I visited lenders, bankers, credit unions."
"I have introduced the TANF Marriage Penalty Elimination Act last week to address this issue by ending the separate and higher requirement for two-parent families."
"You always have to start with where they are."
"I think, as referenced earlier, that we have seen significant improvements in the education field, based predominantly on some flexibility and the ability to create individual progress plans for peopl..."
"I think statistics are pretty clear that we are better served when both are involved."
"So we need outcome measures, clearly-defined outcome measures, but not without enough flexibility to help the individual needs of the people involved."
"I think it is inherently important that we understand the value of when we send these in-kind..."
"It absolutely would. It is just math."
"We have an excellent opportunity right now to bring this around and turn the whole country around."