Political Quotes

“these followers of Speaker Gingrich have threatened the health care security of millions of seniors in America with Medicare cuts. They demonstrated, as Gingrichites, such indifference to the job insecurity of American working families that now they are even being criticized within their own party. But to top it all off, they come to this Congress today proposing to place more hurdles in the way of our youngest Americans with reference to educational opportunities. Yes, the cuts that the propose in education are very real. In my home town of Austin, the school district is contemplating having to cut the opportunity in half for 2,200 young Austinites with reference to their prekindergarten program, just slashing it in half solely as a result of these Federal cuts. As one AISD official, Gloria Williams, said, if the pots gets smaller and the number of kids gets larger, we will not be able to support a full day prekindergarten program. There is no doubt we have an education deficit in this country because these followers of Newt Gingrich just cannot seem to learn.”