Edward Markey actually said...

"We do it so that, you know, we encourage the best and the brightest to go into these fields."

"What Senator Markey said, 30 years ago some people decided to invest in me and here I am today and I have a Nobel Prize; these things cannot happen haphazardly and have a good result."

"Why should we tease that out and just make sure that we keep that on the front burner, you know."

"Massachusetts, we are number one in math, verbal, and science at the 4th, 8th, and 10th grades."