Political Quotes

“The money makes a difference when it is in the hands of a teacher in a classroom directly benefiting a child. The bureaucrats do not help the child one bit. So when a dollar comes from Wisconsin or a dollar comes from Michigan for education and goes to Washington, we are estimating that about 60 to 70 cents gets back to a child, gets back to a teacher, gets back to a classroom. Thirty to 40 cents gets eaten up in this, you know, bureaucracy maze here, and we know that the dollar has to get to the child if it is going to make a difference. So I mean when we talk about reforming education, and we are going to talk about some other things, we can get lots more dollars to the child in the classroom without spending any more money in Washington. All we have to say is we are going to do it different, we are going to take the money, we are not going to feed a bureaucratic machine.”