Lamar Alexander actually said...

"We ought to pass whatever we can pass. The House can pass whatever it can pass."

"Unless you're careful, you're going to get your performance standards, your teacher evaluation systems, your achievement gap requirements... all written here by somebody instead of in the State office..."

"I think you've heard some common suggestion here that rather than taking off regulations, we might try a model that starts from scratch."

"If the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau would actually do that, it would double my--it would increase my appreciation of the agency."