"Part of it is a lack of cost control in the university community, public and private."
"I am looking forward to discussing this further today and I am certainly going to keep fighting to make sure we are moving our students and our schools forward, not backward."
"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..."
"Every one of our babies deserves a system that starts them strong and supports them at every step."
"I think that is ideology, not economics."
"Leaving the sequester in place would lead to massive, self-inflicted damage that would hurt middle-class families."
"Investments in education, from early childhood programs through college, are some of the smartest the Federal Government can make."
"Furloughs to me are kind of a short-term strategy."
"We have 9.4 million low-income students who are now attending college on Pell Grants."
"Our Nation's high school graduation rates are at their highest level in almost three decades."
"It is also time for Congress to act on legislation to give victims the protections they deserve to seek justice."