Tom Harkin actually said...

"Education begins at birth. And the preparation for education begins before birth."

"We must return to the practice of marking up our appropriations bills, debating them on the Senate floor."

"I think if you were to ask the average person on the street, say, 'Do you know about Head Start?' 'Oh, yeah. Everybody's heard of Head Start.'"

"It makes no sense to me to have so many of our hardworking kindergarten teachers in the catch-up business year after year after year."