"If we increase the size of the pie, everyone is going to benefit."
"I was stunned to learn that across the country we were suspending and expelling 3- and 4-year-olds from preschool."
"There are a lot of bad ones."
"There is a lifetime ban on Pell grants if you have been in jail. Once you have paid your dues, once you have completed your time, many of us believe you deserve a second chance."
"If we keep seeing what is happening in our society based on this disfranchisement, then I think we are going to end up having many more issues than we could ever think about having."
"I was a single mom with two kids, on public assistance, receiving food stamps, work study."
"But tell your students also there was a safety net in place that hadn't been gutted or cut."
"We have a crisis in society, and we have to admit that crisis."
"I want to see your budget doubled so that everybody can, first of all, be free of these diseases."
"I just have to thank all of you."
"The contract--and we have talked about this--that Alan Gross was working on seemed to be perfectly reasonable."