Political Quotes

“I find it ironic that the debate is centering around whether this is for public schools, against public schools, whether it is for private schools. This has nothing to do with support for one school system or another. What this HELP scholarship will do is to empower parents, parents and local communities, to take greater control over the education of their children. We spend far too much time in this body worrying about systems and worrying about a process instead of worrying about how we can help parents ensure that their child gets a better education. This bill tonight will do that for some people in America who do not have choice. If you have got money, you have all the school choice you would want, but if you are poor and you are locked into an inner city school, you have no choice. How long is it going to be before those of us in this body begin to take seriously the problems that we have in inner city schools in this country? How can we look one day longer at the system we have created that is denying those children a shot at the American dream? This helps them out of it.”