Political Quotes

“For those who may be interested, there is a strong record of the Congress through all of the 1980s, up until 1992 actually, doing a better job in terms of what we put into special ed than the administration, which did a bit better from 1992 up through 1996; and then the Congress has done better than the President in the last 4 years in these areas. Secondly, with regard to the point raised, again, I said earlier, there are parts of the bill offered by my friend from Georgia with which I agree. I am not offering this amendment as a substitute to his bill. It is only dealing with one part of it. There are parts of this bill of which I am very much supportive. It is like anything else, you have to make choices. Would we like to do everything? Maybe some people would like to do everything. But we can't do everything. We have all painfully learned that. We finally have ourselves in a situation where we now have surpluses. We are moving in the right direction. The interest rates and the economy reflect the fact that we are showing much more fiscal discipline than has been the case in the past.”