Orrin Hatch: “I wish every school district in the country would teach music because it softens kids' lives. When I was a young kid, I…”

“I wish every school district in the country would teach music because it softens kids' lives. When I was a young kid, I was born on the wrong side of the tracks. I was a tough little kid. My mother made me learn the piano for 6 months and then made me play the violin, and that made me even tougher, carrying that violin to school. I have to say that softened me and gave me a soft side to what some people think is a fairly tough guy. So I commend my colleagues for wanting to do more. But having Democrats call for more and more spending is a little bit like a glutton who has eaten everything on the table and now wants more. There is no end of the spending that they would do, even if we do have a $1.2 trillion deficit. This President has all he can handle. There is no question about it. I commiserate with him. I also look at the outrageous costs of some aspects of higher education brought into discussion here, what a gravy train it is for some people in many universities, and how tuition has gone up so much to pay for the gravy train.”