Political Quotes

“first, I should like to say with respect to my friend and colleague, the Senator from Connecticut, that it is always a pleasure to deal with him on the same side of an issue just as it is very dangerous to disagree with him and attempt to prove a case. But as I have listened to the case presented against this amendment by three of my colleagues, one of my own party and two of the other, it seems to me that they argue in an attempt to have it both ways. Each of them was a strong supporter of Federal legislation, Goals 2000, which was designed to come up with national standards for the teaching of various subjects in our schools. Each of them, as far as I can tell, approved of spending some $2 million of Federal taxpayer money to finance a private study which resulted in these national standards. But when it comes to our debating these highly controversial and I firmly believe perverse and distorted standards for world and American history, we are told we should butt out; we, the Congress of the United States, should have nothing to say about national standards for the teaching of American history.”