Political Quotes

“I will lower the decibels. I do not have any reason to make any political statements. I do not have that need. The President, on the other hand, has misled the American people with a radio address yesterday, and I think I should try to make sure the American people truly understand what is going on. In his speech, in which he dealt primarily with education, he said we should be able to make real bipartisan progress on education. Well, Mr. President, in the entire history of this body, there has never been a greater effort at bipartisan legislation in relationship to education, and in the last 24 years, I can assure you there has never been a better effort. So, Mr. President, we sent you the Higher Education Act, a bipartisan effort. We sent you special education, IDEA. We sent you the Workforce Investment Act. We sent you loan forgiveness for new teachers. We sent you quality teaching grants. We sent you emergency student loan. They are all law, Mr. President. We sent you seven. We also have awaiting on your desk school nutrition, including help after school, so that we can try to deal with the problems of juvenile delinquency. We sent you charter school legislation, Mr. President, in bipartisan fashion, $100 million extra every year for five years. We sent you quality Head Start. And what are your people trying to do? They are trying to eliminate the quality from the Head Start bill that we sent to you.”