Charles Rangel: “The most important challenge facing this country today is the need to improve our educational system.”

If they can't give us any idea how long it would take to repair this emergency situation--which stains the government, it stains the executive branch, and it stains us--maybe we should set a date for our next hearing.

I have universities that have campuses all over the world. Are you telling me, Mr. McCluskey, that my national security is going to be tied up because university presidents want to make an appeal to families that want their kids to go all…

no matter what differences one might have with you, we all know that it is a common goal to make America stronger.

There is a fear of what you don't know. And there is a feeling that you don't want people to know what you don't know.