Political Quotes

“in my mind, there will be few bills that we consider that will be more important than the Goals 2000 bill. Goals 2000 will only be meaningful if it wakes us up and make it very clear that unless we do something, the standard of living of this country will not increase as much as it could. Those who have traveled around the world have seen and been impressed by the incredible opportunities of opening markets. But the other thing I think one is more impressed with is how the other nations that we are competing with are there already working just as hard as they can to garner every piece of business possible while we kind of slothfully plod along. Furthermore, their educational systems are producing workers much more qualified than ours. The studies indicate that if we do not wake up, this Nation in the next century will slip from being the leader down to a second-rate country. We will be ashamed and not be able to look our grandchildren and great-grandchildren in the eye and say that we did for them what had to be done in order for them to have not only the standard of living that we have but an even higher one.”