Lamar Alexander actually said...

"I used to chafe most under people who did not think I had enough sense to figure those things out for myself in our local schools."

"It sounds to me like a national school board for preschool education, which is one way to do it, but that is the mandating way, not the enabling way."

"Let us see what you can do with this. Take this money and combine it with yours, combine it with private money and we will be the enablers. We will not be the mandaters."

"We have some big ideological differences on this committee, but we also get a lot done, sometimes unanimously, because we go through that process."