Political Quotes

“I want to rise in favor of this resolution because this resolution is quite simple. It says that the President cannot formulate a national test for our students unless the Congress specifically authorizes such a test. It is just that simple. It is not all the other things that we have heard. This might seem like a typical inside-the-Beltway type of squabble between the President and the Congress, but I say to my colleagues that there is a bigger principle at stake in this resolution: Who should control the education of our children? Should it be parents or should it be the Federal Government? The administration and its supporters in the Congress want more control over local communities and parents when it comes to educational policy. They want to expand the national bureaucracy at the expense of working families. They want to promote a one-size-fits-all education system, a system that dictates national standards and promotes a national curriculum and gives more power to Federal bureaucrats. We want to return power to families. We want to give parents more choices. We want our local communities to make the decisions, not some huge Federal bureaucracy. That is why we support the concept of school choice.”