Political Quotes

“I was seated there as the dialogue was going on and could not help but think, when I was the State superintendent of schools in North Carolina back in 1996 contemplating running for Congress, I could not help but think it is amazing what a few years have done to the dialogue in this body. In 1996, I was so irritated as State superintendent trying to work in my State of North Carolina with 1.1 million children and listening to the teachers and administrators so beaten down here in Congress, talking about abolishing the Department of Education, doing away with child nutrition, cutting moneys, block granting, all those things that scared the people to death who were out there nurturing and caring for children, many of whom came to school each day to the safest place that they would arrive, and we have talked about that, where the teachers had to feed them breakfast and love them before they could teach them because unfortunately they did not get the kind of nurturing that every child did have to come. It is good to know now we are having more dialogue now across the aisle about the ability of this Congress to do something.”