Pete Hoekstra: “If I were still employed, most likely if these were the results of my area of responsibilities, I would be unemployed.…”

“If I were still employed, most likely if these were the results of my area of responsibilities, I would be unemployed. The business would have never let such a key part of its future languish with these kinds of results for this long. They would have stepped in a long time ago and said ``You are selling us down the wrong track. You are out. We have got to take a new look at addressing it,'' because this is a very critical matter. We are talking about the education of our kids, the kids that are going to be running this country in 5, 10, 15 years, the kids that have to compete on an international basis if this country is going to continue to be the leading example for the world. Business would have never survived if they let this problem go on.”