This is from a speech to the Urban League, National Committee Pittsburgh, July 28, 2003.
"Finally, on the issue of college. Do you know that there are 12 million young Americans who attend public institutions, colleges, and universities. They pay an average of four thousand dollars a year. Now, you multiply that, it’s 48 billion dollars a year.
This take cut of the President’s amount to 155 billion dollars a year. For less than a third of the present tax cut you could have universal college for our young people. It’s time to make education a priority.
One final word. When I walk up to vote every day in the House of Representatives, there is a statue of a woman whose arm is outstretched, and she’s protecting a child who is blissfully sitting on top of a pile of books. And the title of that statue is called, “Peace Protecting Genius.”
Not with nuclear arms, but with the arms of love is the child, Genius, protected. We need to work for peace. And as we do that, that is the path to restoring this country to a new era where we have health care for all, education for all, jobs for all, and hope for all."
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