Political Quotes

“Again, one of the criticisms that may come up, this will be a great program for your middle class suburban areas, for your wealthy school districts and those types of things. But when you take a look at what is happening at the State level, again, it is pretty amazing, and it shows the true character of America, because a tremendous amount of this money that is being driven by tax credits at the State level is not going to the local public school. There is a significant amount going there, but there are significant numbers of individuals and corporations who are willing to say, ``I am going to put that money into a scholarship fund, and I do not know who the beneficiary is going to be.'' And those scholarships are maybe going to go to, and a lot of them have the funds, have them limited to kids who come from families who are 200 percent of poverty or whatever. So they are willing to put that money into a scholarship fund which may go to a child who lives on the other side of the State, who lives in one of our large urban areas, and they are fully willing to write that check, knowing that that money is going to leave their community, but they are going to help some child out somewhere else in the State, and they may or may not ever know the name of that child. But they know it is an investment to make sure that we do not leave a single child behind in education. I think that is kind of a common goal that we have in America.”