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They don't have a plan; it's incoherent, ... They go to the most expensive [option]. It boggles the mind they would pay for hotels and not pay for vouchers for [permanent] housing.

Shirley Franklin

[Some refugees said they were unhappy that the agents couldn't provide more information.] He didn't know too much about anything, ... He said he didn't have any vouchers or money, and I said, 'What are you doing here then?' They should have had a better plan.

Mary Williams

This is about more than evolution. It's about not teaching sex education, not teaching bilingual education and pushing for vouchers. Its about not paying taxes.

Frank Smith

We're going to blanket the entire Hudson Valley with ticket vouchers.

Dave Burke

VAC staff refuses to send summary data sheets, reports or spreadsheets with vouchers to aid in completing the payment process.

Paul Nelson

"I used to sign vouchers and sign-out sheets with 'Alexandra Dee.' Somehow it stuck.

Sandra Dee

They will receive the vouchers to maintain affordable living there or elsewhere.

Adam Glantz

School choice, vouchers, is not on the table. There are numerous other things that still need to be done.

Bob Corkins

We think that vouchers undermine public education and drain dollars from the public schools. They also create double standards of accountability. Public schools are accountable to the public. Private schools are not.

Mark Egan

I really didn't expect him to come off sounding like FDR, even though he mixed in some standard Republican proposals like enterprise zones and school vouchers.

Bruce Buchanan

Polls and focus groups show younger blacks less likely to identify themselves as Democrats, and more likely to support partial privatization of Social Security, school vouchers and the abolition of race-based preferences. This spells trouble for the Democratic Party and its monolithic black vote.

Larry Elder

Vouchers are a flawed and divisive approach that undermines public education.

Greg Weaver

I am on the record, and have been since becoming a board member, about funding vouchers at the expense of public schools. We have to fund schools equitably and adequately. I'm not interested in robbing Peter to pay Paul.

Lorraine O'donnell

Some nonprofits won't give money directly out to the victims. Instead they will take the money and provide services, whether that is temporary housing or vouchers or things like that. [But] everyone is trying to be transparent and accountable.

Brendan Moore

It's window dressing for the benefit of social conservatives, ... The president may feel that whatever support he will lose among fiscal conservatives, he will win from conservatives proud of him for bootlegging vouchers in the relief plan.

Ross Baker

The Red Cross provides vouchers for people and they use those to get groceries, nonperishable food items and diapers and formula or whatever we have.

Traci Anderson

The state Supreme Court has ruled that vouchers don't fly. This federal rule is just a way around state law, and we would definitely be opposed to it.

Mark Pudlow

We're about to enter this third phase which is the ongoing, long-term support for these folks, with housing vouchers, jobs and transportation options.

Will Wynn

At this time, the most urgent need is to restore a sense of normalcy for the more than 300,000 students displaced by the storm, ... It is just simply not the time to open up a policy debate on vouchers.

Greg Weaver

My assumption is that I have been on the record (against) vouchers and he knew that. My reasoning for the donation is that Dr. Leininger is pro-education, and I have a proven track record in education from kindergarten through graduate school.

Lorraine O'donnell

The people who use (the vouchers) really like them, and some of them start calling us around now wondering when they're going to start giving them out. They love taking their kids and getting fresh fruits and vegetables.

Janet Allen

The issue of school choice is still alive but vouchers as a means is not a choice.

David Aubrey

Some of [my books] are expensive. I usually get book vouchers from my loans and use that money to buy books from the bookstore.

James Dempsey

When the Pierre office did not receive certain vouchers, some questions were asked. Other vouchers were submitted that were incomplete, so that's when we did our internal investigation.

Brenda Hill

Vouchers do not fit into the equation of public education.

Bill Weaver

Nationally, half the people served by vouchers are off of them within five years, so there's been a fairly healthy turnover. But now, housing authorities are squeezed, and we can't keep pace.

Linda Couch

It's a little early to assume that the Supreme Court would give blessing to vouchers. Everybody is trying to make assumptions based on a case that is not a voucher case.

Rob Boston

I am extremely disappointed that [the president] has proposed this relief using such a politically charged approach. This is not time for a partisan political debate on vouchers.

Ted Kennedy

I would share the skepticism of whether [universal] vouchers will be introduced, ... but I think we're already seeing that more choices are being accepted, and in some places, they're quite dominant.

John Chubb

Most families have a choice of where they can go. They can go to other public housing; or they can use Section 8 vouchers.

Dale Johnson

I think that's why vouchers will succeed because they achieve the national goal of empowering students and advancing their education.

Colby May

Too often, vouchers caused checks to be written without board members looking closely at the vouchers. We need more time to look at them before approving them. Comparisons need to be made.

Gene Cisewski

They'll be giving the vouchers away on the TV. If people call in, they'll send them to them.

Eva Melo