Tom Harkin actually said...

"You need to know where your students are, you need to know how your teachers are doing."

"Well, let's open the door further. I would, both on this subcommittee, as Chair of the subcommittee, but also on the authorizing committee, we ought to be saying what we can do over the next few years..."

"It is much, much harder to build this thing up than it is to tear it down."

"I am sure you have some ideas of your own about changing that system--about providing incentives to kids early on so that they can keep up their grades and keep up the work, that they get scholarships..."