Political Quotes

“I was just amused that we ought to spend more time fixing public education. First of all, in many areas of the country it ain't broke; and they prefer that we do not try to fix it. And, in other areas, we spent 35 years trying to fix it; and we messed it up royally. So I think we better be careful about how much knowledge and how much one-size-fits-all from Washington goes in relationship to improving academic achievement of our students. We will have a lot of discussions on how we do that in the committee. We will have suggestions. We will have ideas. We will have legislation. All we are trying to do at the present time is say, there is a procedure. The procedure says that the Congress of the United States determines the direction we should be going. Only the President can suggest and recommend. All we are asking is give us what is our right and our responsibility, and that is to determine how this test should be put together. If this test should be enacted at all, the Congress makes that decision.”