Political Quotes

“Absolutely. We absolutely have to have these if we are going to tutor youngsters who are behind and need to catch up. Mr. Speaker, $1.2 billion below the level authorized. Teacher quality programs, the very thing we have to do if we are going to improve education in America. We have to improve opportunity for the staff that are teaching our children. What did we do? What does the President propose? Mr. Speaker, $3.1 billion, down 5.2 percent from the previous level. I will just go through the percentages. It is just shameful. Educational technology. At a time when we are really trying to put more technology in the schools because we are in a technological world, and so many schools need the resources, 9.6 percent cut from the previous level. More children out there, more needs, and we are cutting. Impact Aid, we just talked about, 14.2 percent. Vocational education, 26 percent proposed cut; 26 percent. Mr. Speaker, it reminds me of a story I heard once when I was little. The guy said he was not going to kill his pig, he would just do a little bit at a time, and somebody saw a pig running around the yard with three legs, and he said, I am just eating a little bit at a time. That is what we are doing to education. We are not going to kill it all at once; we are just going to kill it a little bit at a time, until it is so crippled it cannot work. It is absurd. We need people to work on equipment and machinery.…”