Tom Carper actually said...

"What you need to do is look at the billions of dollars that we give directly to colleges and universities, over $10 billion a year, and say, here are our priorities, here are our standards."

"Colleges should be accountable for their graduation rates and how much debt they are putting their students in."

"It is in America's DNA to turn a problem into an opportunity, and that is what we have done by being a pioneer in the green technology industry."

"We cut the size of government. I think we ended up in 2000 with fewer Federal employees than we had had in a long time. I think that was a goal."