Political Quotes

“What I am saying to my friend from New Hampshire is, yes, we are willing to bring the education bill back today, tomorrow, any other time, but we do not need these self-imposed constraints. We are not the House of Representatives. We are the Senate. We have the ability to amend bills that come before this body. Had we been allowed the opportunity to treat the elementary and secondary education bill as legislation has been treated for two centuries in this body, we would have been long since completed with that and would have been on to other issues. No one should think we are afraid to debate education issues. We have a lot of education issues to debate. The Senator from New Mexico and I have worked for 3 years on high school dropouts. I am not proud of the fact that the State of Nevada leads the Nation in high school dropouts.”