Political Quotes

“I would like to wrap up by indicating what I said at the beginning of this entire debate, and I do not know how I can say it any more sincere. The well-intended legislation of the 1960s failed the very people we wanted to help the most. We have to admit that. All the results indicate that. Every study has indicated that. So what I am asking my colleagues to do is we have lost 30 years. How many generations of young children have we lost who have not gotten a decent education because we would not admit that we had a problem? We always said if we had more money, we could cover more children, and somehow or other things would be beautiful. It did not work out. Now that does not hurt us, but it sure does hurt all of those millions of children that we had hoped that we could give them a good start in education so that the life would be far better for them, and that is why it is so important that the accountability that is put in this bill is there.”