Political Quotes

“I think what many of us have seen as we have met with school administrators and around in our districts, we constantly hear that these buildings and these people here in Washington, all with good intentions but who control about 7 percent of the flow of the dollars to our local classrooms, generate 50 percent of the paperwork. For every dollar that we give them, they keep somewhere in the neighborhood of 30 to 40 cents and they send 60 to 70 cents to our kids. What we are saying is we agree with the President. We ought to take a look at where the dollars are going, and before we pour another dollar into this building and only get 60 cents out, we ought to see exactly the bang that we are getting. If we can get that up to 90 cents, we do not have to increase taxes, the tax burden; we will just be helping our kids.”