Sonny Bono: “Thank you for pointing out exactly what I am talking about. You know, I chose to be a Republican because the symbol of…”

“Thank you for pointing out exactly what I am talking about. You know, I chose to be a Republican because the symbol of Republicans is responsibility. Selling the message of be a victim is an easy message to sell. It is probably 200-to-1 to sell, a message of ``Be responsible.'' But this man has been talking for half an hour about that we have to become responsible. Well, we must become responsible. I get so fed up when I hear the other side come down here in this well and just say whatever they feel like saying. And when Congresswoman Woolsey took off on education, education stinks. I cannot say it another way. It stinks. We spend more money than anybody and have the worst results. So now the solution to that is to spend even more money and still have it not achieve anything? No, that is not the truth. No, that is not what we should do. We should really look at our educational system and find out what we are doing wrong, which is staggering, and make an attempt to start doing things right so that all children, like when I was a little boy, can go back to public school again, which is almost impossible in this day. Public schools do not teach. They are not safe. They have become political. They do not stand for what they are supposed to stand for any longer. So, to paint that rosy picture about education just disturbed me so much because I wanted so badly for my two little children to go to public school and experience that, but I cannot. I would not dare do that to them.”