"I've been on the legislature for twelve years, but my most important job has been as a dad. I have two daughters. As dad, I saw particularly for the last four years, the devastating effects of these cuts to public education. There are six counselors for thirty-two hundred kids, schools have a third of the computers they need, and they have ten percent of their classrooms locked away because they're literally hazardous to inhabit. That has to change."

"The only way we've ever invented to effectively allow people to lift themselves from poverty is universal, high-quality, public education. And one in four kids currently live in poverty in this state. It's time to invest in ourselves."