John Walters Quotes

The term 'cost shifting,' as I use it, refers to those items in a university's budget that used to be reimbursed by the federal government but are no longer paid for by them.

Educating young people about the harms of drugs is essential.

Under Howard, federal government support for black Australia slowly dried up. Services were slashed, native title restricted.

With respect to drugs, you know, there are a lot of organizations, including an enormous budget and an army at the federal government level that tries to deal with the drug problem.

Acid wasn't getting a whole lot of bad press at the time, and as I saw the whole bad-press thing happen, I became aware that the government had done a whole lie on all the other benign drugs as well. It became clear to me that the government wanted no real drug education.

NSF is the only federal agency with a proven track record of selecting education projects through a rigorous, careful and competitive process that draws on a wide variety of experts from outside government.

But people that are worried about unborn babies are the same ones that vote against kindergarten programs in Indiana or school lunch funds out of the federal government.

We simply can't keep providing money from the federal government in the form of subsidized or actual loans and Pell Grants when we don't have the money.

There is no question that we are in a period in which we are going to have to use those sources to fund about 35 million dollars a year that used to be paid for by the federal government.

The cell phone companies add to the problem. Every one they give out, they get money for from the federal government. So they have an incentive to give as many away as possible. And that's exactly what they're doing, and they're making a killing.

I think the federal government really should be supporting Louisiana and ensuring that every person from that area has an opportunity to vote on what will occur in the area.

The demand that school finances be transferred away from local school districts to the state and/or federal government has been a long-time favorite of the educationist lobbies.

The [teachers’] unions and the [school] districts have very different stakes in local control. The districts want the money and the programs that higher level governments can provide, but they also want autonomy in determining how resources are allocated. The unions are much less wedded to local autonomy. Indeed, much of their lobbying at the state level is to limit the autonomy of the districts.

What I support is a whole different approach with regard to drug use, and that is spending less money on the prosecution and incarceration side and more money on prevention and education, which I know works.

People say I lack political courage. But don't forget, I went right into the heart of Amish country and I told them: Just say no [to drugs].

You cannot in practice have a federal guarantee that people won't starve.

I am opposed to the Federal Government spending any money to sustain church schools ….

The Department of Education engages in fanciful rhetoric.

The federal contribution to our state for education has gone from 3.9 percent to 4.4 percent. The federal government may be a contributor but this is hardly a partnership.

Some people say that we can’t afford to help our kids through school by keeping student loan interest rates low. But … the federal government offers far lower interest rates on loans, every single day–they just don’t do it for everyone. Right now, a big bank can get a loan through the Federal Reserve … at a rate of about 0.75%. … a student who is trying to get a loan to go to college will pay almost 7%. … the federal government is going to charge students interest rates that are nine times higher than the rates for the biggest banks–-the same banks that destroyed millions of jobs and nearly broke this economy. That isn’t right.

The song 'Assassins Of Youth'... 'Assassins of youths' is what they used to call drugs in the old days when they first started the anti-drug campaign. And it's kind of an anti-drug record.

Most of the stuff that parades as drug education in this country is just rubbish with no foundation in evidence.

Researchers, treatment providers - we all have a stake in the drug hysteria game.

In Canada, the federal government's share of public transit infrastructure is 40 per cent.

The federal government's done a very good job about tying goodies to our compliance with federal programs, whether it's the Department of Education, whether it's Obamacare with its generous Medicare and Medicaid dollars and the like.