"Our Nation's children deserve no less."
"In Connecticut, 5 percent of children in the child welfare system aged out without ever finding a forever home."
"And it is unconscionable that Members of Congress can't come together to fix a program, again, for the American people and the people that truly need it."
"Nobody is taking advantage of that. When you really look at it, that is what it means."
"that is where something is fundamentally wrong and unconscionable."
"And they don't have time for us to sit around and play these partisan games. These are programs that people depend on, and not as a handout, but sometimes people just need them as a step up to get the..."
"I value public education and the work that we have done and the investment that we make in children every day and I have no guilt about that."
"I think we maybe need to reevaluate our measure, you know, and do more capstone projects and internships and getting students out into the world."
"The importance of the dairy industry cannot be understated."
"I appreciate your honesty on the answer."
"I have some very personal experience as far as dealing with students after a disaster in my first years of teaching."
"I saw the phenomenon that flourished after Hurricane Katrina, and that was charter schools, where regulations were loosened."