Lucille Roybal-Allard Quotes

President-elect Bush spoke in a forceful and candid manner that it is his passion that all children should have access to a first class education.

It's not easy for the average family to ensure that their child receives a quality education. And the federal government is not making it any easier.

I remember when President Bush, George W. Bush, came into office, he focused on No Child Left Behind, and with - and before very long, suddenly, Republicans were thought of as being as interested and as competent in education as Democrats, and why? Because they were talking about it and doing something about it.

I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in our schools.

Regardless of their parent's income or zip code, every child in Georgia deserves access to a high-quality, affordable education.

We need to focus on helping EVERY child to get a world-class education in EVERY school in this country.

The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.

In education, they say either property taxes have to go up, or we'll have poor education - that's a false choice.

Head Start's ability to improve the educational skills and opportunities of Latino children will be an important component of America's future success.

I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education.

Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.

It's shortsighted not to view the education of a future generation of Americans as a priority for all Americans.

Teach For America provides one of the most critical pipelines for bringing new talent into public education.

Looking ahead, I can see more and more instances where I will disagree with the president on very fundamental issues. The largest, for me, is education.

This is not a skill problem, this is a will problem. Does America have the will to make education a priority? We know the things that work. Why don't we scale up those things that do work.

We have done a poor job educating people about education. Only when we have clarified that can we talk about how best to achieve it.

I believe the government should ensure all children are provided with a good education.

It's not enough to train today's workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow's workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education.

All you've got to do is go back and look in the early 1900s and see what we had in Texas without public education and realize what it has done for the state.

You know, there are some areas of the state that are providing enormous help to their students; there are others where they're not doing what they can.

May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks.

Education is among the most important problems we face because it's the ultimate 'gateway' problem. That is, it drives virtually every global problem that we face as a species. But there's a flip-side: if we can fix education, then we'll dramatically improve the other problems, too.

Over-reliance on strictly economic justifications has already begun to hurt the quality and range of education at every level of American life.

If you're around the system any length of time, it becomes obvious you have to attack the problem at its root and get to 7- and 8-year old kids.

Equal access to public education has been achieved. But what is the good of access to a failing school?