Political Quotes

“I also would like to join in commending the Senator from West Virginia for his tremendous recitation of history and the problems of this country. He is so right, that we so often forget the teaching of history and the importance it is to this Nation, and that as we enter another crisis time, as we are now with education, it is so important to reflect back upon what made this Nation so great, Nathan Hale and others. I just hope that the Senator and others will continue to alert this country to the importance of the bill that we have before us and to make sure that it becomes an important bill. Because it is so easy to establish goals and then to drift back into our malaise and then to watch things get worse again and then come forward again with another group of platitudes and goals and then back off again. That is the case that we face here on this bill, because things have gotten worse, much worse. This Nation is on the brink of a point where it either moves forward into new generations recognizing the crisis we have in education and improving it so that we can reach the goals that we seek or again to place them on file and to look at them again when we are in the depths of depression.”