"We need to really work together. The American people are better served when we tackle problems shoulder to shoulder."
"The U.S. Constitution grants no authority over education to the Federal Government."
"Graduation rates are low, honestly embarrassingly low."
"The disaster, and I spoke about this earlier, of the rise of administrative bloat must be reversed."
"The Higher Education Act is in dire need of reform to better serve our students."
"Students need pathways, not partisanship, and it is my hope and my expectation that this is a step in a productive and a bipartisan direction."
"We simply cannot continue the rise of college costs as they are today."
"You don't continue to pour money into programs that have been proven failures."
"It is an awful thing, an awful thing to separate a mother from her children."
"Mrs. Jennings, I'm not mad at you....The fact of the matter is, nobody has ever been there for you when you needed it."
"It is an awful thing, an awful thing, to separate a mother from her children."