Political Quotes

“reserving the right to object, I appreciate the dialogue on education. A degree is an education. My mom is a lifelong educator. I spent my summers growing up in the school library, putting books in the Dewey Decimal System, putting the new piece of tape on the outside of it, and actually, back in the old days, filing a new card in the card catalog, which half the people listening to me right now have no idea what that is. I am passionate about education. I have two daughters, and I stay very engaged in the issue of education. So it is always interesting to me when my Democratic colleagues say: When Republicans get serious about education. It is always interesting. We will pass a bill, like what happened in the omnibus or what happened in any Education bill before, and there will be billions and billions of dollars in education, but the comment will always be ``Well, if you really loved kids, you would do just $1 billion more, but because you don't love kids, you did $1 billion less.'' It is never enough on it. This resolution that I brought today was not about an extra $1.3 billion in education to be able to hire more people; it was just about empowering parents. It is an interesting side by side to say what families need more is more employees at school, and what I am seeing is that we need more empowerment of parents. One costs $1.3 billion; the other one is just free. One says: Let's have folks at school know how to be able to take care of your kids best.…”