Political Quotes

“this is just an amazing debate and a simple question that everybody has to ask themselves. The question is, do we trust the people at home, the elected school board members and the community, to try to decide what they want to spend their money on or do we in fact think that they are not very capable and so a handful of us here in Washington ought to figure out what the heck the priorities ought to be? Now, I have to say, I think the country is coming over to our side. I do not think they want all this red tape. I do not think they want all these strings. What they want least of all is a bunch of people in the city, who do not even know what area code it is we live in, to try to tell us how to run our schools. What the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Pitts) has proposed in this legislation is one simple thing, gather up as much of the money as you can, cut the strings, the red tape, send it back to the school districts and get the money in the classroom and let the schools decide how to spend the money. I have to say that this concept of local control is not about local control. It is about faith and normal people who live and work in a community. I would rather put my trust into the hands of us who live locally than to pass it off to some bureaucrats or some politicians in a far away place. Support the bill offered by the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Pitts).”