David Roe actually said...

"Mr. Chairman, the best stimulus package is a diploma. Our children and their education deserve to be our highest priority."

"In this great democracy, the opportunity to succeed must not be an accident of birth."

"I applaud the President when he said a long-term, sustainable economic recovery is only possible if we strengthen our education system and invest in our children."

"We cannot tolerate these high dropout rates. We have to do something. Otherwise we will continue on the trajectory that we are on now, where you have these dropout factories and it is an insult to sug..."