"I must thank you for your leadership in raising one of the most profound, most pernicious, and most complex but most elusive issues of our day."
"I applaud you for holding this historic hearing to discuss the problem of and potential remedies for the school-to-prison pipeline."
"We will all owe you a tremendous debt of gratitude because you will have helped put the spotlight on one of America's most glaring but most elusive problems."
"the Federal Government has an important role to help understand autism spectrum disorders"
"I commend you for your efforts and certainly wish you well as you revert back to private life."
"I had the first hearing ever on global autism."
"We never saw a prevalence spike like we have seen on autism in Africa."
"There are probably tens of millions of cases of autism in Africa."
"Shouldn't we have that also in our efforts to combat autism?"
"wherever there is life, I have been told, that there is hope."
"some people see things that are and ask, why; but I dream of things that have never been and ask, why not?"
"Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman."