Elijah Cummings actually said...

"Personally, I do not understand how anyone can claim to be promoting the education of our nation's children when they are slashing billions of dollars from education funds across the country."

"How can a son of two former sharecroppers with a third-grade education each be sitting before you today as a Member of the Congress of the United States of America? Because I was given an education."

"Our children are the living messages we send to a future we will never see."

"Our number-one responsibility is to help our children figure out what their gifts are."