Political Quotes

“As we go to conference with the Senate on this bill, our eyes need to be focused on the major goals. And one of the major goals that I think many of us share is to make sure that the resources that are going to be dedicated to this bill, whatever that amount may be, go to the most needy students in our society. On the House bill we reduced the number of programs that we were going to fund under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act in order to try to better target these resources to those children, especially minority children in inner city schools and in rural areas who are underserved and need our help. But if we look at the Senate bill, where they expanded the number of programs, a lot of well-intentioned, well-meaning programs, good ideas; but what it does is it tends then to take our eyes off of getting the resources where they, in fact, are most needed.”