Political Quotes

“Senator Jack Reed from Rhode Island is one of the few graduates from West Point in this body and served his country in so many ways and still does. But I think about Jack Reed when I think about what happened with the GI Bill after World War II. We want to help individual people with keeping these interest rates from doubling, but we know when we help lots of individual people we help society as a whole. After World War II, literally millions of young men and women returned from fighting for our country, came back to the United States, and the government was farsighted enough in 1944 under President Roosevelt, who signed the GI Bill, to prepare for this huge wash of young men and women coming back from the war. We as a nation were smart enough back 65, 70 years ago to help millions of those young men and women one at a time with their education. But here is what else it did: Those millions of students who benefited from the GI Bill gave so much to society. Perhaps our best times economically as a nation in the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s came out of the GI Bill because when government helps in partnership to give opportunity to thousands or hundreds of thousands or millions of people, it also helps the country as a whole, and that is part of our philosophy in public service in many ways.…”