Political Quotes

“Well, I just wanted to mention that not only did they buy cars, they bought a Lincoln Navigator, a Cadillac Escalante, they bought a house, and they were going to try to actually buy a Corvette. So it is interesting. I was going to say we have to get to this before our time is up. We ought to go through some of these other cases of abuse, but we should also talk about what is actually happening with our kids. There is a lot of information out there. Our kids are not testing well when we compare them to international standards. It is kind of interesting. A number of the newspapers have been running an ad this week saying we are lucky this is not the Olympic scores, and they list 21 countries and the U.S. is 18. What it is is on educational achievement, on the third international math and science study. And it is disheartening. Not enough of our kids are testing at proficiency grade level. The fastest growing program in our colleges today, we had a hearing today on overseas studies programs, that is not the fastest growing program on college campuses today. The fastest growing program on college campuses today is remedial education, taking kids who have graduated from high school, but cannot perform at basic levels in reading, writing and math so they get in college and they have the colleges and the universities to do remediation.”