"I don't understand why the leadership in the States don't understand what you understand."
"Thank you, Madame Chair, and I want to thank our witnesses for being here today."
"I have to just take exception to your suggestion that the Federal Government requires States to have articulation agreements."
"We actually proposed the funding formula that way to the State legislature."
"Time is more valuable than money and, I mean, you can always replace money. You cannot replace time."
"The citizens should be demanding that not be allowed to happen."
"You have been painted as somebody who had a nefarious reason for opening up this plan, and I think it's a very unfair portraiture of you."
"I invest a lot of time in these hearings, and I'm on two committees. And honestly, on this subject we have the most experts in the Congress of any subject that I am aware of, bar none."
"the strategy may be politically convenient for them, but it tells me and the American people they do not care about the vast majority of students"
"Three dozen, 36 schools that have graduation rates in the single digits."
"That is a number that should keep everyone up at night, and that is a number that has been exacerbated through this policy, unfortunately, of subsidizing higher education at a rate that is just breath..."