Political Quotes

“Just so you know, and I want the chairman and the ranking member to know, in offering this amendment, it's not my intention to wipe out military recruiting. It's very important for people to be able to serve our country. It's an honorable profession. It's essential to America. What this amendment is about really is about upholding the right of parents to be able to determine whether or not their young person should have to take a test that would be given to them under the auspices of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Test. This is a test that is administered annually to 1 million military applicants, high school and postsecondary students. But it's more than just a test. Here's the kind of information that students who take this test divulge: Social Security number, gender, race, ethnicity, birth date, statement of future plans, and most significantly, their aptitude on a battery of subcritical tests. Now, if you ever wanted to make a case for the danger of Big Government being able to reach into schools, think about this. You've got the largest organization in the government administering tests to high school kids and basically getting all the information they want about these young people, and without their parents' consent. I have a problem with that, and we all should have a problem with that.…”