Political Quotes

“The poorest districts in the country will end up paying a premium for all of their construction costs and will actually end up, may end up, getting less bang for their dollar than if they had never gotten involved with the Federal Government in the first place. But sometimes the stuff looks just so enticing, and it makes great rhetoric. I think the gentleman from Colorado is absolutely right. We are not talking about the quality of education. We are talking about designing the best system of getting the financial resources to the child and to the classroom and the school construction program, and as with many of the other programs, one of our colleagues pointed out earlier, some of these programs take 21 weeks, not some, most of them on the average take 21 weeks, 216 steps, and even then you get an inflated price.”