Political Quotes

“In Iraq, we have renovated a little over 2300 schools in all of Iraq. 1.5 million secondary school student kits have been sent out. 800,000 primary school kits have been sent out. In America, the President's Leave No Child Behind has been underfunded by $8 billion. Teacher quality impact aid and after school programs have been frozen in his budget. Reading programs are cut by $8 million. And 38 other educational programs in the President's budget have been eliminated. In Iraq, 2,300 schools nationwide have been either rebuilt and opened since the end of the war. Not that Iraqi children do not need an education, not that they do not need their books and textbooks, but I would hearken, and I would hope others remember in the United States, we have teachers who are paying for school supplies out of their own salaries, because the school budgets, educational system has been cut so bad we do not have resources for our kids. Teachers are paying for it. Not the government taxpayers, which is funded. Iraqi children are going to have a great future. We should have the same type of future, same commitment to American children.”