Cory Booker actually said...

"We have to stop paying our teachers, in my opinion, as wage workers. They are not, they're professionals. We should pay them to get a job done; we should pay them based upon results."

"It's crazy that in places like New York and Newark it's almost impossible, it takes hundreds of thousands of dollars just to be able to fire one teacher -- one that universally everybody says is bad."

"If you're willing to give up these archaic tenure rules, that say once you're two years into the system, you can never be fired really unless it takes -- an act of God."

"In fact, the biggest homeland security issue we have is these other nations in the globe are starting to race past us in terms of the achievement of their young people academically."