Political Quotes

“No; they would not have given me $1 billion. They would have asked me to come up with a new plan, to come up with a new process, to systemically take a look at what I was trying to do and figure out what the real problem was. It is very evident here in education. The problem is not money. Some of the best school districts in the country have some of the lowest per pupil spending. It is not an issue of dollars, it is an issue of where decisions are made. As we are trying to reform this and improve it, we do hear the extremists now calling us. Like you said, if I were making the kinds of decisions and changes we are trying to make here in Washington in the business world, I would be called too conservative, not willing enough to really face the issues. We are proposing change here in Washington and we are gutting programs that in reality do not work.”