Political Quotes

“I want to also thank the subcommittee chair and the ranking member and the other members of the subcommittee that have worked so hard on this bill. Many of the benefits of this bill, the appropriations that we have made, have been discussed previously, but I would just like to say that one of the reasons this is such a tough bill is because education and health are intrinsically different than anything else we spend our money for. It is one thing to be dispassionate about road construction or military buildup, but it is impossible to be dispassionate about our children. Moms and dads across this country feel passionately and emotionally about the schools that their children attend and whether or not they learn and how much they learn and whether they are prepared for the future. This world is changing. The world our children will know will be different than the world that we have known, and they have to be prepared in different ways and for different experiences.”