Mark Souder: “I think before moving into the general topic I am getting into tonight, I want to express my support for many of the…”

“I think before moving into the general topic I am getting into tonight, I want to express my support for many of the education initiatives, although I think sometimes we get it backwards and think Washington is the fount; unless something is done out of Washington, it will not be done. I know that it was under a Republican President that Head Start was created, and Ed Ziegler of Yale University worked with then President Nixon because he felt there were some gaps. We ought to look to Washington to fill gaps, not to be the end-all, be-all of education. Sometimes I think while the motives are correct on the other side, that is, that we need to help our children, and all of us who are parents of young children, older children, are very concerned about education and it is not a partisan type of thing, but we do have some substantive disagreements over whether it should come out of Washington and be controlled out of Washington or whether it should start with the parents and back home.”