"Theres no particular relationship between spending and educational results. Most education spending is actually on salaries, and thats allocated according to political muscle."

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I thought if anyone need a leg up, it was our foster children. So, I started getting involved in education reform, and that was back in 1998. And as a result of all the reform work that I had done, people urged me to run for the Minnesota state Senate. I did, I was there for six years.

— Michele Bachmann