Marcia Fudge actually said...

"I think almost every one of you except maybe one used the word 'failure' for traditional public schools."

"if we start to put all of our resources into doing something that keeps taking five kids from here, five kids from here, five kids from here, then what we have, in effect, done is said to those people..."

"I am from the state of Ohio, so I think I look at things a little differently because most of our charter schools are not public charter schools."

"I have two very quick questions."