Political Quotes

“I am very proud to be in the well supporting the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Porter). I am very proud to be here supporting him for the last 4 years. I will tell the minority leader why you are going to bring in 200,000 people from other countries. For 20 years I sat here in the minority, and the only thing I ever heard from the majority was quantity, quantity. No quality. No quality. The only thing they ever talked about was quantity. If we can just cover more children, if we can just have more programs, if we just spend more money. Nobody ever went out to see whether they were doing any good, so we spent $140 billion in title I. So what do we have now? Do you close the achievement gap? No, Mr. Minority Leader, you did not close the achievement gap one bit. In fact, it has increased. So for the first time in the last 4 or 5 years we have been talking about quality, not quantity. We have been talking about results, not process.”