Arne Duncan: ‘I Cried More Today than I Have in Awhile’

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"I cried more today than I have in awhile so I will try not to cry. I will start with the president. When he asked us to come to D.C. and work with him, that was about a one-minute conversation of my life. It wasn't that we wanted to leave Chicago. It wasn't we wanted to be education secretary. I wanted to be on his team. And I believed so much in what he was about and what he stood for.

And I have to say seven and a half years later, my admiration is only greater. And it's pretty remarkable and important for folks to know that every hard decision, his only  question was what's the right thing to do for kids and challenging us and our team to fight for kids every single day. Often that was a hard political decision and that was never a a factor.

His passion and his commitment is extraordinary. It's not the educational leadership. It's the moral leadership."