Political Quotes

“I had the distinct privilege before joining this special body, people's House, to serve as the elected Superintendent of Schools for 8 years in the State of North Carolina, a State that has really been actively involved in setting high quality educational standards statewide, and that is really showing some promise in our State, and I know firsthand from having visited with students and their family how important education is and what a major security issue it is for this country and how it will pull us forward, and I am grateful that the President, and I was very pleased to be here in my first session and make it a national priority for our Nation, because I truly believe that education is the one thing that levels the playing field for all young people, and there is still an awful lot of young people in this country who will be the first in their family to attend an institution beyond high school, and I was awfully pleased that the bipartisan balanced budget, that it contained a significant investment in education. Truth is, it was the largest investment, as you know, in education for education beyond high school since the GI bill in 1945.”