"I strongly support Secretary Duncan's proposed regulation on incentive compensation and believe that it will help reduce harmful incentives by recruiters."
"More money for more of the same is hard to sell politically."
"You really do not want Governors and Education Committee chairmen and the United States Senators to be figuring out a teacher evaluation system."
"the Federal Government is really giving with one hand and taking away with another because the new healthcare bill... is going to add between $1.1 billion and $1.5 billion of costs."
"I wonder from whose schoolchildren we are going to borrow this money? Because we have a looming debt crisis in our country."
"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."
"what we are really doing with this Federal takeover of the student loan program is borrowing money from 19 million students."
"I support the Secretary's notion that we really ought to focus on the 5 percent of schools that are the worst."
"While the treaty with Russia may be in the right direction and the nuclear summit that is coming to town may be an impressive group of people, the nuclear posture statement that the president put out ..."
"It makes no sense for us to spend $40 million buying the Cherokee National Forest and then sticking a bunch of 50-story wind turbines on top of it."
"I would simply like to encourage you to, wherever appropriate, work in partnership with universities in States like the University of Tennessee or the State of Tennessee or other States and universiti..."