"I do believe that this bipartisan law will fulfill the Elementary and Secondary Education Act's promise to promote and protect the right to educational opportunity for all of the Nation's most vulnerable children."
"there are a lot of problems in our States that have nothing to do with flexibility, absolutely nothing."
"They want public money but they want freedom. Is that what you said? They should not report on tax dollars?"
"I am certainly hopeful they will be on my side as it relates to making sure that we are accountable for the dollars that we take from taxpayers."
"I just wish that my colleagues would fight as much for those with no choice as they do for those who have a choice."
"I wish we would spend as much time on the schools that educate 95 percent of all our children than the schools that represent 5 percent."
"However, when the governor sought a waiver, he only sought it for rural communities. Does that make any sense to you at all?"
"Are you concerned about those as much as you are concerned about this?"
"So that is why I am so afraid about doing something like block granting SNAP to states, because they make those kinds of decisions."
"We want the states to have these authorities, but then the states make decisions that are not based upon the highest need."
"the racial divide is compounded when funding streams for hands-on, short-term education and career training are cut."