Political Quotes

“If my colleague will hold the chart up for a minute, the contrast between the two charts is absolutely phenomenal. My colleague's chart is exactly the way the system here in Washington works. The total emphasis here is on the stuff in red: the Treasury Department, the Department of Education, the State, the politicians, the State Department of Education, the school district and politicians. That is where the whole focus is on the bureaucratic model. What is the process that the dollar is going to make it from Washington down through Lancing to Holland to Lincoln School? What is the process? What are the rules and the regulations that are going to follow it? What are the mandates that are going to follow it? And the child is kind of the footnote, the asterisk at the bottom, saying, oh, yeah, this is about kids; but most importantly this is first and foremost about process. And what happens with the tax credit, it becomes very, very clear, the focus is on two people. The focus is on the person who has the ability and the desire to contribute to the schools and the focus is on the child. The middle people are cut out.”