Political Quotes

“Education really should not be a partisan issue, but unfortunately in this Congress it is. Children show up at the public schools. They do not come as Democrats or Republicans. When they start, they only know what they get, not what they need, and that is unfortunate. Many times children, depending on the income of their parents or what part of town they may come from, that is what they may wind up with in terms of their opportunity for education, which in turn dictates to the quality of life they may have later, and certainly dictates the quality of life their family will have because education really is the one thing that levels the playing field, and I mean public education because depending on the State, in this country roughly 90 percent of the children are in public schools. In some States, in my home State, it is almost 95 percent and it varies from State to State. That is why we need to do everything we can to support the public institution that has really made a difference in this country of providing an economic opportunity for so many people to move into the middle class in America.”