"Research shows that when families are engaged in their child's education students are more likely to succeed in school."
"Charter schools are not a real choice for most families around the country."
"Vouchers divert funding away from public schools and have failed to demonstrate an increase in parent engagement or student achievement."
"We must prepare our students to compete in a mobile society and global economy."
"I still have my preference for the public school system with all its defects, but it does--it is universally available."
"We should not take money away from that school system to send to another school system which can be very selective in its clientele."
"I always look at matters like this at a balance of economic development on Indian land and the unique sovereignty of Indian land."
"The Indians, John Marshall tells us, have retained sovereignty. It is not something we gave them."
"They are sovereign nations with sovereign lands with all the attendant rights of sovereign nations."
"I really want to do what is right for the Indians under our Constitution and among their sovereignty, which they had long before the Constitution was written."
"The Indians are certainly capable of determining what is a good use of their land, and they should at least be at the table as an equal, sovereign to sovereign relationship."
"When you have any consultation with people and at the end of the meeting you pass out something and say here's some further information, you have to share that knowledge."