Carol Moseley Braun Quotes

I am going to use every rostrum and every forum and every searchlight that I can to tell the people of the country and their elected representatives that we can no longer afford overcrowded classrooms and half-day sessions. We just must not, we just cannot afford the great waste that comes from the neglect of a single child.

I'm very committed to stable and adequate funding for education.

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.

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.

As a Member of Congress, I've continued my family's tradition of focusing on education.

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.

During my time as a state legislator, I've pushed for significant investment in public school districts. In Congress, I would look forward to increasing federal public investment in education through initiatives like Race to the Top.

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.

We can't afford not to fully fund education.

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.

Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled.

Real Texans want their kids to have the best education possible, not the one politicians looking to brag about budget cuts have left us with.

For six and a half years, I had responsibility for leading the Labour party policy on education and delivering on our promise of improved opportunities for all our children.

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.

If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.

I have said it on several occasions, several times from this podium, that providing a quality education for our children is high on my priority list. I will not stop now.

I’m running for Governor so that all our children can go to kindergarten.

President Obama is highly concerned with education. He's a champion on early-childhood development strategies. So I like the work he's doing, and I support it, and I realise that he's one of very few political leaders around the world that actually has early-childhood development strategise at the top of his agenda.

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

Latinos care about education, yes, so we need reform, not just money.

In Barack Obama, we have a great education president who is rebuilding America. His Race to the Top program is doing more to 'spur us' to improve our public schools than anything we've ever done as a nation.

The last thing that should happen is funding cut for education; it should be increased. We need to put more money towards education, and anything else is abusive.

Like health care, education is something worth spending on and worth investing in, but we're spending more and getting less.