Political Quotes

“as I have been down here since 1993, I see one danger, and that is many people in Washington tend to become elitists. They study a problem. They think they can solve that problem better than anybody else in the world even if it is a local problem. In this case, we have come up with many decisions on how the Washington money has to be spent as we send it back to local schools and to the States. So we say, look, here is some money to build a roof, but you can only use it for roof building. Here is money for the Internet and wiring for the Internet, but that is all you can spend it for. If you have already put in that kind of technology, tough luck. This bill moves that decision making from Washington back to teachers, back to parents, back to that local school board. Anybody that believes that those solutions that are closest to the problem have the best chance in success of solving that problem are going to support this kind of legislation that gets 95 percent of the money out of Washington, gives it back to the classrooms where we can use it to teach students to the best of the ability of those parents.”