Political Quotes

“the gentleman has taken kind of a revolutionary approach. He is focusing getting dollars to the classroom, getting them to the kids, getting them to the teachers, to the local administration where they can actually make an impact. The other visual that we use frequently here, this is a picture of Washington, DC. I know my colleague is a freshman but I know that he is very well aware that when we walk across this street over here and we walk to the Capitol to vote, we call it Independence Avenue. That is what the street is called. But along this road are what, all of the bureaucracies that now are controlling so much of what goes on in our local neighborhoods. We think we ought to rename the street Dependence Avenue until we change that culture. What would the gentleman's legislation, what kind of impact would it have on the people that work here on Dependence Avenue?”