Political Quotes

“We have been in Arizona, and we also went to Delaware, and the reason I bring up Delaware is, Delaware is the size of one of our congressional districts, all right? So, you know, Delaware said, we want a State test, and what Delaware did is, they spent 3 years starting at the grassroots level to develop a State test. Remember, one congressional district; Michigan has 16. It took them 3 years to develop a test, because they wanted to get parental by, and they wanted to get teacher by, and they want to get school administrator, business community. They wanted the State to accept the test. Bill Clinton wanted to take 10 months and, top down, drive a test and impose it on all of America, on every school, on every child, and have them test, the exact wrong. It is the ``Washington knows best'' mentality rather than doing a grass, which is going on in the States right now; States are developing tests, and it is a grassroots, bottom-up type of move, not good enough for our President. Bill Clinton wants to be the expert, says, I am going to develop a test, I am going to impose it on everybody.”