Dan Kildee actually said...

"Because the federal budget should reflect our values as a nation. And that is just what the President's budget will do."

"That is why I was so pleased to see that President Obama's budget will commit significant new resources to early childhood."

"It is appropriate that this is our first hearing this congress, both because we are here to focus on the first years of a child's life and because there is no issue more important than early childhood..."

"You can judge an individual by how that individual spends his or her money. And you can judge government by how that government spends the taxpayers' money."