Tom Carper

When you come back, most of you will be eligible for the GI bill. It pays your full tuition to go to college to any public school pretty much in the country.

Sometimes in this hearing room I quote Albert Einstein, who said famously, 'In adversity lies opportunity.'

I think it is very important that we do embrace the world of change in higher education around us

I think it is a loophole. I think some colleges actively recruit members of the military because every dollar of the GI bill counts in the 10 percent.

We do not know the difference between the learning at the University of Delaware vis-a-vis the Iowa State University.

Always looking for common ground.

100 percent of the revenues--100 percent of the revenues--are coming from the Federal Government. That is not a good situation.

We created a law that was called '85-15,' and the law that at least 15 percent of those enrolled under the GI bill at for-profit schools had to be non-veterans.

One of the things that we are responsible for is creating a nurturing environment for job creation and job preservation.

The role of government is diverse. We are responsible for any number of things--homeland security, defense around the world--any number of things--the environment and so forth.

We are at the end of America's tailpipe, us, Maryland, New York and New Jersey, Pennsylvania.

I think we all want a couple of things. We want cleaner air. We want to have a stronger economy.

I could have shut down the State of Delaware. I could have shut our economy down when I was Governor.

Well, it is not the last train to Clarksville, but it is the next train to Wilmington.

I think we actually need to make it really clear: This person blew the whistle, here is what we learned, and here is why veterans are better off.

The number of people without health care coverage is down from about 40 million to maybe closer to 10 million now, headed in the right direction.

What can we do? What is working?

Over the last, gosh, 40-some years, maybe 50 years, in this country we have tried to figure out in a health care delivery system how do we get better results for less money.

I like to say: Find out what works. Do more of that.

We need more permanent IGs, Senate-confirmed IGs.

The most important element in the success of any organization I have ever been a part of is leadership.

The truth will make us free.

The media can play a valuable role here. The media takes a lot of abuse.

I want to thank each of you for being here today.

Some people said we need to do health care reform in order to slow the growth of health care costs, and we did.