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So when we are talking about busing and when we are talking about quality education we are talking about educationthe most important factor of all in the future of America. I want to talk a while about quotas. because basically quotas is what we have gotten into in talking about busing. Buses haul kids from the country into town. that is true. but when we talk about busing today we are not talking about bringing the kids from the country into town. we are talking about busing to work out quota systems for various schools. A couple of weeks ago I received a letter from the Secretary of HEW. Elliot Richardson. in answer to my specific question. I said. "Do we have a quota system for schools in HEW?" And he very definitely said. "There is no quota system. we have no student quotas of any type." You can well understand why HEW does not have quotas. because in my State of Texas the largest minority are Mexican Americans. and yet right beside us. if you went over in Louisiana and started talking about who were the minority. they would tell you that the French are the minority. Or if you continued right up beyond us and asked who were the minority in Oklahoma they would start talking about the Indians. I have talked tc citizens in the North. and I have visited Northern cities.