It is very difficult for a Sunni Muslim to be a fully practicing Sunni in Shiite Iran.

I think it is an important time to do it, and it is a time to carry on what this committee was originally established to do.

your staying power at the witness table is impressive, but probably should have been expected because of your record-setting tenure in the Chicago Public Schools system as a superintendent.

There won't be any hurdles that would keep a school like this from applying or being able to apply due to resources, or to gain the resources because of some of those standards that we set arbitrarily?

I would applaud that effort because, again, the diversity that is there, this country is built on that as you, I am sure, would agree with.

I personally am one that likes to see a lot of competition, a lot of variety, a lot of framework for research and development that can come through things like that.

Well, there definitely is a lot of latitude potentially in there for concern for how far, how aggressive, the regulating entity of the States might be.

I appreciate my good friend from Missouri again holding this conversation tonight. And I think you're leading into the key point here. Because bottom line, when you talk about entitlement spending, those entitlement programs that we've…

And we can do it the right way without the Big Government issues and getting down to that American exceptionalism that says we can trust people to do for themselves, if given the incentive and opportunity, better than what Big Government…

Well, I think, not necessarily the suffering idea, I think in doing something that's credible and the right thing to do, it gives people optimism that the answer is here. It will take some tough decisions but ultimately the people who are…

And I think the people spoke in November. I think that speech they gave to us, my good friend, is that we must take this opportunity. This is our point in time. This is our date with destiny, as it were. If we back off from tackling the…