Political Quotes

“I am going to, though, plead with my colleagues on the Democratic side, where the opposition to this bill lies, to set aside the suspect political motivation behind this bill and to put aside all that kind of lofty ideological rhetoric that partisanship can inspire. I do not necessarily disagree with all that rhetoric in principle. But I am going to ask you to strip away the esoteric and political issues that normally accompany this issue and look at the essence of what this bill does. Because all it is is an additional $7 million that can only go to poor families, only poor families. If it is not spent, it will not go to DC, nor to any other educational effort of merit. It will be lost. A lost opportunity. What does it do that is so threatening? It lets parents pick where their kids will go to school. Those parents can choose the school my children go to, only a couple of miles away from the District of Columbia. It is in an almost entirely minority neighborhood, a public elementary school, with an African American principal, and an African American administration.”