Political Quotes

“I always appreciate the words of Senator Isakson, who was the cochair of the Ethics Committee, where I served with him, and now on the Veterans' Affairs Committee, and I appreciate his work and Senator Blumenthal's work on one of the most important committees in this Senate. Mr. President, about a year and a half ago, on a cold January morning in Cleveland, where I live, at a Martin Luther King breakfast, I heard a speaker say: Your life expectancy is connected to your ZIP Code. Think about that. Whether you grow up in Columbus or Canton or Appalachia, whether you grow up in a city or a prosperous suburb or a low-income suburb or a small town or a rural area, so often your ZIP Code determines whether you have access to quality health care, to good education, to good jobs, and to the social support necessary to succeed. That is particularly true when it comes to education. The quality of our children's education should not be determined by their ZIP Code. Too often that is the case. Teachers and schools in far too many cases lack the resources necessary to ensure students can grow and succeed. Achievement gaps persist between economically disadvantaged students and their more advantaged peers. These gaps persist between Black students and White students, Latino students and White students. They persist between native and non-native English language speakers. They persist between students with disabilities and those without.…”