Political Quotes

“I just want to rise to take full blame, or full credit, for the words ``such sums.'' Had I come to the floor of the House with this legislation with what was proposed, I am sure I would have been run out, in fact I would not have even come with it myself, because what was proposed was to move from an appropriation of $3.3 billion to an authorization of $7.7 billion. I will now allow the Committee on Appropriations to make that decision, realizing that they will use very good judgment and will not get us near $7.7 billion this particular year. ... the theme is ``excellence, quality or stop.'' And I want to make sure they understand that. It is no longer a case of you can keep your grant forever, no matter how well or how poorly you do. You will keep your grant if you do well, if you improve the quality of the program, because it is children that we are trying to help and their parents and in order to do that, we must insist on excellence.”