Gilbert Gutknecht: “Let me give you a simplier quote from Winston Churchill, it is one actually my wife needlepointed for me on my office…”

“Let me give you a simplier quote from Winston Churchill, it is one actually my wife needlepointed for me on my office wall, and it is simple, it says, ``Success is never permanent. Failure is never fatal. The only thing that really counts is courage.'' And what we saw today in Minnesota, and I cannot thank the gentleman enough, I left that meeting so excited about the future of education, not just in Minnesota, but around the country, because it renewed my belief that Americans do care. They care about their kids, and they want to make certain that every child, and this was what really came through with virtually all of the testimony today, that every child, whether they come from a family of privilege or a family of poverty, every child deserves a first-rate education in this country today. The truth of the matter is, and we all know this, people on all sides of the political aisles of every spectrum philosophically, we all know that too many kids today are being cheated by the system, and we in Washington cannot completely change everything, but I think we can make some reforms.”