Political Quotes

“the issue is not whether we believe investment in education is an important part of America's future; we all agree with that. It is not even whether we believe there should be some tax reductions to encourage people to invest in their children's education as well as other desirable goals. Most of us believe in that. I certainly do. The question is, How do we have a rational process of deciding how we are going to use the opportunities that are presented to us here today? It is interesting to me that as we start the third full century of America's national history we might reflect back on what happened at the beginning of the 19th century and the 20th century--the two other full centuries of this Nation's existence. In both of those periods, there seemed to be an energy that came from a new century and the new beginnings that it represented--an energy that was channeled into areas that have had a lasting, positive impact on our Nation. In the beginning of the 19th century, the President of the United States was one of the gentlemen whose bust appears above our Presiding Officer--Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson had the vision to see that America's future was not in being a scattering of States along the Atlantic but, rather, as a continental empire.…”