Former Senator Slade Gorton on education:
"As you most likely know, I cannot cite any specific constitutional authority for federal education programs because none exists." -- in a letter to CURE leadership, July 15, 1999
"Those who see Goals 2000 and related efforts as mistakes and misguided policy are right - my support for those bills was ill conceived." -- recanting his support of Goals 2000, statement in the Congressional Record on Oct. 5, 1999