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"And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particularly with respect to how they're serving minority children."
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"America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there."
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"America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased."
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"I was born in Europe... and I've traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America."
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"Who says I'm gonna marry another guy? In Europe it's not like in America, where you set a date."
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"The popular song is America's greatest ambassador."
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"America makes up its own mind about what it wants to see."
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"It was a mystery to me, how the tuning was, or the style seemed to come out of nowhere, it obviously had roots in America going way back, there was nothing like it for me I'd ever seen before."
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"Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the Oscar."
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"All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America."
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"Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten."
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"And I think that's righteous, I think that's what parents want to know. They want to know what's going right in the school, and what needs improvement, and that's what this law does."
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"I think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution."
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"And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particularly with respect to how they're serving minority children."
America

"Again, the truth of the matter is we haven't paid that much attention to high school accountability."
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"It's a hard process to navigate... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college."
College

"We know that if we're going to remain economically competitive in the world, and viable as a civic democracy, that we're going to have to get more people educated to higher levels."
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"We at the Department of Education are going to provide technical assistance; I've committed $14 million to show states how they might meet this more sophisticated approach."
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"I think all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking."
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"We want to obviously foster a relationship that we're a partner with states; that we all share the same goals of closing the achievement gap, just as the Congress does; and that we're practical and sophisticated enough to understand what they're talking about."
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"My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they've been more pioneers on the special education side."
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