Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, I could not resist this argument today because as I listened to it, and I have some good friends that are making it, all I could think of was back in about 1480, some 518 years ago, I suspect that in the country of Spain there was the leadership of Spain arguing with a rather novice voyager known as Christopher Columbus, arguing the proposition of whether the world was flat or round. Luckily, Mr. Columbus won that argument, both in the persuasion of being financed for his voyage and establishing the proposition by virtue of his voyage. Then I wonder, in the early 19th century, in 1830 and 1840 in this country when public education was a hot issue and it was argued whether it was the role of government to guarantee primary or secondary education to all the students of this country, the proposition by the wealthy, the proposition by many of the well-intended, was that is not a role of government, and we should not divert resources of the government for the purposes of private education.”