Political Quotes

“I also have a request. There is an academy in Chicago called the Chicago Academy, Carnegie endowment, called one of the landmarks for teacher trainings, a request for $1 million for a landmark facility doing new teacher training in the schools for teachers who get master's degrees. The truth is I have nothing against the reconstruction investment in Iraq, but to vote for these cuts here at home, to ask the people in the gentlemen's districts and my district to pay the taxes, work hard, get the kids off to school, teach them the right values, and see their tax dollars go over there when schools are being closed, teachers are being laid off, police and firefighters are being laid off, health care is being cut, 3 million unemployed Americans, 45 million uninsured Americans, and yet all this investment over there. As my colleagues know, I have a bill called the American Parity Act, and it says whatever we invest in Iraq, we have got to do here at home.”