Rahm Emanuel

And the rest of the class doesn't know what a pronoun is.

If I want to be frank, I don't know if I'll run, but if I run and the issues on trans are the most important, I'm not your guy.

And I'm okay with that.

If getting us off of a 30-year low on reading or math scores and somebody that's willing to make that core to what we have to do as a country, then you may think my answers are right.

And you may think my answers are wrong.

And I'm okay with that.

But I'll tell you one thing I know from history.

End of Civil War, turn of the century, end of the GI, and meeting the Sputnik Challenge.

The four greatest periods of economic growth and prosperity in American history are underpinned by one constant.

Land-grant colleges under the Civil War, universal high school education, the GI Bill, and the science and technology challenges of the Sputnik Challenge.

We are fighting, and we're letting people in America fight with one hand tied behind their back.

And so to me, that is what I said I would do.

Now, I, again, believe in a culture of acceptance.

I have no problem with that.

But it will not distract or digress from raising graduation rates, post-high school education, and reading a math course.

It's something that should be done, but it's not the thing we send kids to school with.

And I also think arguing...

About the name of a school after Abraham Lincoln and not worrying about the fact that the kids don't know why Abraham Lincoln is an icon is also messed up.

And I think we engage, and I say we meaning Democrats, engage in bringing cultural wars to schools and then found out we were on the losing side of those cultural debates.

And politics is about picking where you want to have a battle.