Political Quotes

“I came to talk on a different topic, but it is interesting because I noticed the front-page story of the Washington Post about a for-profit college not too many weeks ago. Headline: ``Inside Bill Clinton's nearly $18 million job as `honorary chancellor' of a for-profit college.'' I just heard this Senator talk about somebody signing something, and this article refers to this for-profit college that signed Bill Clinton to a lucrative deal as a consultant and honorary chancellor, paying him $17.6 million over 5 years. It is very disturbing because it says: The guest list for a private State Department dinner on higher-education policy was taking shape when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton offered a suggestion. It says: In addition to recommending invitations for the leaders from a community college and a church-funded institution, Clinton wanted a representative from a for-profit college company called Laureate International University, which, she explained in her email to her chief of staff that was released just last year, was ``the fastest growing college network in the world.'' There was another reason Clinton favored setting a seat aside for Laureate at the August 2009 event: The company was started by a businessman, Doug Becker, ``who Bill likes a lot. . . . '' Nine months later, Laureate signed Bill Clinton to a lucrative deal as a consultant and ``honorary chancellor,'' paying him $17.6 million over 5 years.…”