Political Quotes

“If the gentleman thinks about this, the President talked about it like the GI bill. We figured that the young men and women who fought previously in World War II and the Korean war and even in Vietnam had earned a certain stipend and we allowed them to use that to get an education. It turned out a generation, a couple of generations of some of the best educated people that America had ever seen, and it fueled our economy with tremendous growth. And he talked about the AmeriCorps as one of those things. In North Carolina, I hate to keep using that, but I think it is important when the gentleman mentioned this issue of working in return, giving something back, in 1985 we passed legislation to provide for 400 scholarships per year for high school students who would commit to going to college and coming out and teaching in an area that we had great need in in the public schools, be it science, mathematics, whatever the area may be. They were chosen based on their academic standing, and then we broke it up obviously by congressional districts so we could have balance in the State. And in all fairness to the taxpayers, we wanted to make sure we had balance in the ethnic background, so we tried to make that fit. But the point was each one of those students received a $5,000 unrestricted scholarship. They had to teach for 4 years in the State of North Carolina after they received the scholarship.”