Lenin once said that he would rather have everyone in Russia die ofhunger than allow free trade in grain. That pretty much sums up thethinking of Sens. Ted Kennedy (D., Mass.) and Arlen Specter (R., Pa.).They and other liberal school-choice opponents are now lining up tofilibuster a bill that would give some 2,000 low- and middle-incomestudents in the District of Columbia $7,500 vouchers to attend theprivate or parochial school of their choice. Their thinking seems tobe that it is better to lock children into the worst public schools thanto give them a choice. Pete Dupont
Former Delaware Gov., Wall Street Journal, 9/24/03