Quote of the Day

"If you don't like what's going on, don't get in your car and drive by your school board and maybe drive by the capitol and get on an airplane and fly to Washington and say, 'I don't like the way the school down the street is being run.'"

—The ever-quippy Fred Thompson, on why education should be a state rather than a federal issue—even though he voted to do the exact opposite in 2001 via No Child Left Behind.