Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, what does the Republican budget mean for you and your family? It means a debt-free Nation for our children. In education it means more dollars for our classrooms and more dollars for our children instead of dollars for bureaucracy and redtape. The distinction could not be more clear. The Democratic alternative wants to force on our local schools programs and mandates that do not work. They want to build our schools, hire our teachers, buy the technology, feed our kids breakfast, dictate the curriculum, teach our kids about sex, teach them about drugs, teach them about art, feed our kids lunch, and then they want to test them. Other than that, they believe in local control. And then they are going to move all of those programs and move those decisions for each one of those areas into a department in Washington that for 2 years has failed its financial audits, has told the American people give us $35 billion per year, but we are not going to take the time or the energy to be able to account where that money is spent. That is wrong. The alternative is providing resources to local schools to tailor solutions to meet the needs of our local school districts, to meet their particular needs, a vision that gives decision-making and discretion to local administrators, to parents and teachers, the people that know our kids' names and know their needs. The differences could not be clearer.”