Arne Duncan: “Let us start talking about rewarding success because there is a lot of success in this country.”

Had we done what we needed to do in March, in April, in May and June, we wouldn't be talking about can we open schools? This was a natural disaster. It became a man-made catastrophe.

To say you have to spend money in this way, that prices are fixed, just simply didn't make sense.

What is more important to me is what is actually happening to real students.

They're trying to have it both ways. So they're bending to the pressure, the political pressure that they're feeling from him.