"This does come down to individual lives and their ability to realize their God-given potential."
"Thanks, Dr. Wolf. I agree it was less inspiring, but it was very important, and I thank you for that."
"I find the sum total of this evidence to be very powerfully in favor of continuing the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program."
"This program is not only good for the students who get to make the choice with their parents of where they want to go, it is good for the schools and the other students at the schools to which they go..."
"the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program has become an issue around which there is a great national debate."
"Together we are going to fight to keep this program doing."
"I have opposed many voucher programs because they did take money from public schools, but that is not the case here."
"I greatly appreciate your leadership on numerous issues of great importance to the District of Columbia, our Nation's capital, especially, I want to say, on voting rights."
"We wanted this hearing to be fair--a fair and open consideration of the pros and cons of the District of Columbia Opportunity Scholarship Program."
"I applaud, as this Committee does, the work of my successor, Mayor Adrian Fenty, and our chancellor, Michelle Rhee, in giving unprecedented authority to the D.C. public school administration to act bo..."
"the partial report we have is encouraging."