Political Quotes

“I keep throwing these statistics out because to me they are overwhelming. They are mindboggling. I didn't take a lot of mathematics courses in high school or college. But I don't have to be a mathematician to understand that 82 percent of people who are in prison who are not high school graduates, that there is some reason people who do not graduate from high school are more likely to go to prison. We have to recognize if we can keep kids in high school, we are going to keep them out of prison. I don't know how much more we need to talk about prevention. That is one of the biggest prevention programs. We don't need to build youth centers, although that is a help. We don't have to come up with new inventions every day to keep kids in school to realize that if we keep them in school we keep them out of prison.”