Political Quotes

“I note my good friend from Alabama is in the chair. His is always the first State on the list. But just to make the point, presently there would be some 10 million children in the country who would be served by title I out of the 55 million children who go to school. In the case of Alabama, there would be 192,377 children who would be served if we had full funding. That number today is about a third of that number, a third of the 192. If we go down the list--and what I have provided in the first column is what full funding would provide--and look at the number under your State and then calculate what one-third of that number is, you would get a rough idea of what the present number of children is who are being served. Of course, the number itself reflects what full funding would amount to in all 50 States. That is what this chart provides. As we know, our society is based on the promise of equal opportunity, not equal success. None of us bears an obligation to guarantee the success of anyone, but we all share the common goal that everyone ought to have an equal opportunity to succeed.”