Gerald Ford actually said...

"The time has come to provide Federal support without Federal impediments."

"For too long the real issue in our education programs--Federal versus State and local control--has been obscured by endless bickering over funding levels."

"Nothing could be more destructive of the diversity of thought and opinion necessary for national progress than an excess of control by the central government."

"It is time that we reconcile our good intentions with the recognition that we at the Federal level cannot know what is best for every school child in every classroom in the country."