"Part of it is a lack of cost control in the university community, public and private."
"You want Pell Grants? You want Stafford loans? Show us that you are doing things to control the costs."
"We have to keep pressure on universities to control costs."
"Forty States. And if you look at between the late 1980s, when sentencing, mandatory minimums, three strikes you are out started to hit, the growth in State funding for prisons and incarceration dramat..."
"I always wonder about the fantastic graduates of the Newport News Shipbuilding Apprentice Academy... but I worry that we do not count them."
"We have not had a race to the top type competition in the higher education space, and that is what we are proposing in this year's budget."
"What do we value? Where do we want to put scarce taxpayer dollars? What is important to us growing a vibrant and thriving middle class? Is it locking more people up or is it educating them?"
"It is something I would like to work on."
"But do we count that in our, you know, as we measure college graduation or as the international norms measure college completion and they rank us 14th in the world, are they measuring people who do no..."
"In terms just of the sheer organizational effort, I assume it's thousands of hours for your personnel to try to figure out how to contort your budget to comply with the sequester, that would much bett..."
"What does it mean, when CENTCOM has decided that there should be two carriers in the Middle East and decides purely because of sequester we can't do that, what does that mean to our readiness posture ..."
"I believe that we ought to do everything we can to avoid those catastrophic consequences of across-the-board cuts."