Political Quotes

“Certainly it is no wonder the Speaker Gingrich chose to elevate another anti-education proposal in these waning hours, precious hours, and to say he will place this above all the other issues that face the American working families today. For, indeed, this has been the most consistently anti-education House in memory. We have replaced decades, if not centuries, of a bipartisan commitment to Federal aid to education with extremism, with a hatchet that goes after one program after another. This is the same crowd that in the last 2 years has attempted to cut almost $20 million from Federal student loans. It is the same crowd, this Gingrich Congress, that tried to raise the cost of going to college by $5,000. It is the same crowd that said to thousands of American citizens that we will give their children a wrong start, not a Head Start. And whether it was Head Start or college or anything in between, they went after every title in the education code, whether it was safe-and-drug-free schools bilingual education or any other provision.”