Political Quotes

“Let us fix public education. Let us not abandon it. Let us not take away and give vouchers for a small segment, 7,500 that the gentleman talks about, when we have thousands that need help. I do not want to abandon public education and only help a few. Mr. Speaker, that is why I join a lot of my Democratic colleagues today saying let us fix the problems rather than saying that vouchers are the solution. That is not a solution. That is a short-term, one-time solution for one child. Let us talk about the millions of children that are in public education. Public education educates millions of children around the country, compared to what private and church-based education can do. There is just not enough private and church-based education to do what they want to do. We need to fix the problems for the millions and not the few; that is what is important today.”