Political Quotes

“I rise this afternoon to talk about what some observers have called one of the best historically black colleges and universities in our country--Delaware State University in Dover, DE, home of the Hornets. For a number of years, I was a naval flight officer in the Vietnam war and then came back to the United States and moved to Delaware and got an MBA at the University of Delaware. Right away after that, I went to work at what became the Delaware Economic Office. We were headquartered at the campus of Delaware State College. Delaware State College was an HBCU and was not a well-funded college, not one that was in the favor, frankly, of the Governor and legislature, for the most part, and was a bit of a stepchild. I used to think: Boy, wouldn't it be great to be able to help transform Delaware State College into something historic, memorable, and outstanding. Later on, I would be elected Governor--about 15 years later--and have the chance to work with the fellow who was the president of Delaware State University at the time and to transform, with the help of the Delaware General Assembly, Delaware State College into Delaware State University. Today, of all the HBCUs in the country, I think its latest rating is No. 5, and I think there are 70 or 75 of them in all. They just reported that their enrollment for the coming year will reach 5,000 students, all in undergraduate, graduate, master's and Ph.D. programs, which is a record.…”