"Thank you very much, Madam Chair."
"That is a huge number. 800,000?"
"none of this matters if, at the end of the day, it does not result in benefits to our constituents."
"A lot of people think the kids are just not bright. They don't have the money."
"the retention rate is not what I would like for it to be, and one of the main reasons why it is not is because the kids don't have money."
"So many have lost jobs in this recession, and as CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf told this committee, a large number of those jobs are not coming back."
"At the end of the day, the greatest affirmative action program yet invented is a good, solid education."
"We have an empathy deficit. He's been saying this long before he became President."
"There's money that's flowed through the CDFIs, which has helped community development."
"I just refuse to believe that we cannot help these Americans who go out there every day, do the right thing."
"Sometimes $25,000 is worth $10 million because it acts as a bridge."
"I just believe with all my heart that we can do better."