Richard Burr actually said...

"I hope that is a goal that we can shoot for, though."

"Every year, more than a million full-time, first-time degree-seeking students start college. Yet fewer than 40 percent of those students pick up their degree in 4 years."

"The United States is now the only industrialized Nation in the world where a kid has a lesser chance of graduating from high school than their parents did."

"I hope for those that are shocked by the 70 percent graduation rate in high school, that they are even more shocked today to hear that barely 60 percent of our higher education students graduate in 6 ..."