Identify the speaker (Put Guesses in the message area, not the subject)

[BurtWorm]

If you can't name the speaker, can you identify the party?



For example, take the idea of competition in schools. OK now, what is competition in schools? What does it really mean? Well, competition in business means you have somebody who's in a business that has a profit motive in it. It's measured every quarter. If the business doesn't keep up, the business is going to lose revenue, therefore it has an incentive to restructure, reorganize, re-plan, re-compete and stay in business.

Schools aren't businesses. Schools are institutions of public service. Their job--their product--is not measured in terms of revenues gained. It's measured in terms of young lives whose potential can be realized. And you don't measure that either in terms of popularity of the school, or in terms of the standardized test scores in the school. You measure it child-by-child, in the interaction of the child with the teacher, the parent with the teacher, and the child in a larger environment later on in life.

So when people say that competition is-this is sort of sloganeering, "Hey, you know, schools need this competition." No. I've challenged people: Tell me why it is that competition would improve a school. Most of them can't explain it. It's just like, "Well, competition improves everything so therefore it must improve schools."

If you want to improve schools, you've got to go inside the processes that make a school great. You've got to look at the teachers, their qualifications, their motivation, what it is that gives a teacher satisfaction, what it is a teacher wants to do in a classroom. We've got to empower teachers. Give them an opportunity to lead in the classroom. Teachers are the most important leaders in America. All that is lost in the sloganeering of this party. And the American people know it's lost. So you asked me to give you one thing about this party that's in power -- it's the sort of doctrinaire ideology that doesn't really understand the country that we're living in.

[Ediacara]

1. wild guess?

Carol Mosely Braun?

[BurtWorm]

2. Good try

but no, it's not her.

[Dookus]

3. ooh! ooh!

General Wesley Clark.

[BurtWorm]

6. Is that your final answer?

What makes you think it's Clark?

[tishaLA]

4. I'll try

Gen Clark. He uses terms like "doctrinaire ideology."

[BurtWorm]

5. Just curious:

are you a Clark person?

[tishaLA]

10. Well, yes and no

I am closer ideologically to Sharpton, but I plan on voting for Clark. I believe in political pragmatism right now--Bush, Rummy, Dick, and Condy have that effect on me.

[BurtWorm]

11. I know what you mean!

Welcome to DU, by the way. :toast:

I am officially for Dean, but I just had a conversation with a Clark person over the weekend who convinced me Clark is no danger--least of all when you consider the bastards in power now. He recommended reading the Talking Points Memo interview with Clark, which I was in the middle of when I posted this question. This quote is from Clark. It's music to my ears.

[DrBB]

7. Here's the answer

It's a recent statement by Clark. Who is a Dem goddamit.

on edit: from the TPM interview I think. That or the DNC speech. But without going back to check I think it was TPM.

[BurtWorm]

18. You're right

It was TPM.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/oct0301.html#1001031244pm

Musr reading for every Democrat.

[eleny]

8. It's...

Wes Clark

[bicentennial_baby]

9. I know!

That's my man General Clark, rocking it as usual, stickin it to the Repukes!

[BurtWorm]

12. Those of you said

Clark are right. I'm impressed with your knowledge of the candidate. Did you all read the TPM interview?

[eleny]

14. the tip off is

the mention of leaadership in the classroom. he's talked about this before. and yes, i'm a clark supporter.


edited for spelling

[gully]

13. Clark.

:smoke:

[Donna Zen]

15. Okay...good game!

Who said this:

But where is the balance here?  How much must we give up to be safe?  And how much will such sacrifices compromise the very freedoms we seek to protect, or the prosperity we have come to enjoy?   These are the issues with which you must grapple…they cannot be decided by “experts” and “authorities.”   Coming up with the balance will be your responsibility – it cannot be delegated to so-called experts – or given over in trust to elected leaders.  Rather, yours is the daily responsibility of citizenship, carried on through open debate and exercised at the ballot box on a hundred different issues and candidacies.  And this will require dissent, dissent that cannot be silenced through charges of comforting the enemy without surrendering the very freedoms we say we are fighting for. 

[KittyWampus]

16. Let Me Guess....

Wesley Clark (D)

[Donna Zen]

17. Seton Hall Address 5/02

Oh and cs....thanks for doing all that work with NED.

[kentuck]

19. I would guess...

General Wes Clark