"I'm kind of sick of it. Where we've got these dueling statements--and we've got one side saying, which I think is correct, and I don't know why everybody doesn't agree--that we don't attack both what's going on in the schools and have reform of what's happening in the schools, and see to it that chi..."
"I'm just as curious as to why, because I suspect there are people who are involved in that who would also want to be associated and think of themselves."
"We strengthened Head Start, I believe, and included within the new authorization Centers of Excellence."
"We need to focus on it."
"It is hard to believe that additional thinking and investment in this issue... would not pay enormous dividends for the Nation."
"I too want to echo what Bernie Sanders said, and that is--and for me, of course, over the last 30 years..."
"You never failed children; you never faltered in being their advocate."
"I'm counting on you to get it done as I leave."
"The question we never could get anyone to do was to tell us, now what would be the cost saved if someone uses it and actually loses weight, becomes healthier and all the other aspects of it."
"The more we knew about that, the more we could do about it."
"Senator Dodd, you have been a leader in proposing legislation to reconstitute the poverty line to a level that is more realistic."