Christopher Dodd actually said...

"I was impressed that Kentucky and Arkansas have developed school-wide systems. I mean, I say this respectfully of Kentucky and Arkansas, but I don't normally think of them as being so on the forefront..."

"Thank you for being here."

"A lot of the times, the parents that you wanted to reach are the ones whom themselves had bad experiences necessarily in schools."

"Thank you for championing big-picture issues like healthcare and financial reform and issues that directly affect kids, like Head Start and Childcare and Development Block Grants."