Political Quotes

“When I think about kids and schools, I think about Senator Murray because of her hands-on experience. But I can tell you that as a parent--now a grandparent--decrepit as you are, I say to the Senator from Illinois, and even a little more, in my younger days, I volunteered to work in the auxiliary, going down to schools in San Francisco where they needed volunteers, and this whole issue of keeping the kids busy after school is an education issue and it is a crime issue. A lot of people hear say they are tough on law and order. What better way than to give our children something to say yes to? The FBI tells us that between 3 o'clock and 6 o'clock are the hours kids get into trouble, when juvenile crime peaks. You don't need a degree in criminology and psychology to know that this makes sense. The President has a tremendous expansion of 'after school' in his budget. We need to talk about that when we get this Ed-Flex bill before us. Kids should not be going into classrooms where they can't read because it is so musty. I have been in those rooms. I had to run out of one particular classroom in Sacramento, which was so musty because there were leaks that hadn't been fixed; it was a disaster. To think that our children are in that atmosphere--that is not right. After school children need to be kept busy, and during school they need small class sizes.”