Political Quotes

“The Education Department placed a half billion dollars in the wrong Treasury account, then disbursed the money without leaving an auditable paper trail. They also have something in the Department of Education, which I think in the private sector if you were a vendor with the Department of Education you would find fascinating. It is called duplicate payments. I cannot believe it happens. You provide a service to the Department of Education, you bill them, and they pay you, and they pay you again. You get paid twice. This year alone there have been $150 million of documented duplicate payments. There is no telling how much we do not know. These are the vendors that have contacted us and said, hey, you paid us twice. I wonder if there are any out there that we do not know about who maybe have been paid twice, closed shop and said, hey, this is a pretty good deal. I think the other thing that we really do have is we have got a phenomenal education strategy to improve schools at the local level, saying when you send a dollar to Washington, we want to get 95 cents back into a local classroom. Today that is about 60 cents.”