Lamar Alexander actually said...

"You really do not want Governors and Education Committee chairmen and the United States Senators to be figuring out a teacher evaluation system."

"I wonder from whose schoolchildren we are going to borrow this money? Because we have a looming debt crisis in our country."

"what we are really doing with this Federal takeover of the student loan program is borrowing money from 19 million students."

"I don't think taxpayers really want to support much more funding for more of the same, but they will support a lot more funding for excellence."