04/04/2004
https://transcripts.cnn.com...
"Such excusal from duty should also apply for any employee who is needed for emergency law enforcement, relief, or clean-up efforts authorized by State or local officials having jurisdiction."
"Business as usual is not getting us where we need to go."
"We are here to put progress before partisanship, the future before the moment, and our children before ourselves."
"Education is our most enduring legacy, vital to everything that we are and can become."