Dalton McGuinty Quotes

The amount of money we spend on education is important, but not nearly as important as how the money is spent.

Conservatives should insist that defense spending be examined with the same seriousness that we demand in examining the books of those government agencies that spend taxpayer money in the name of welfare, the environment, or education.

There is a legitimate role for development education in the UK, but I do not believe these projects give the taxpayer value for money.

If you could really guarantee that the money would be spent on something more worthwhile, I'd say, absolutely, scrap the space program, but it never works that way.

Such schemes take money from people who can least afford to spend it to support an unneeded bureaucracy that eats money people thought they were providing for education.

Demands for equal financing of sewers, streets, and garbage collection would make more sense than proposals for equal financing of the schools, since some plausible connection may be inferred between the amount of money expended, e.g., for roads, and the quality of service resulting to the taxpayer.

Too many states spend more money on prisons than on higher education.

How well we spend education dollars is just as important as how much we spend.

We need to increase education budgets.

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.

In a time of tight budgets, difficult choices have to be made. We must make sure our very limited resources are spent on priorities. I believe we should have no higher priority than investing in our children's classrooms and in their future.

We need to save the education system. We need to remove education from the framework of the political parties that rule in the State of Israel. We need to increase the allocation of long-term national resources to education and never touch them - no matter what.

Spending an extra dollar on the D.C. public school system isn't spending an extra dollar on education. Spending an extra dollar with the Pentagon doesn't buy you an extra dollar on defense. Republicans need to look skeptically at military spending.

It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.

If we freed up all the money in the certification process, think about how much more money we'd have to put into teacher salaries.

I object to you using words like squander and pork. What is pork in one part of the country is an essential project in another part.

Taking Big Bird away from our five year olds, lunch money away from our ten year olds, job training programs away from our fifteen year olds, and college loans away from our twenty year olds is a disgrace.

We need to stop spending money on death, the war in Iraq and on enhancing the lives of the people in our own country.

For every dollar we have given to athletics, we have given about 27 to higher education or medical research.

As a society, we can and should invest more money in education.

Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.

I think what's been lacking from our discussion for a long time is really that other part of what a Budget chair does, which is set the priorities for this country in terms of making sure we invest in the right places, in education, in job training, and to make sure we do a balanced approach moving forward.

As proud as we are of this city and as extraordinary as it is, all of south Louisiana and all of the Gulf Coast is a very special place, and the federal government has underinvested in it year after year after year, whether it's education or health care.

We can't afford not to fully fund education.

Even in a time of fiscal austerity, education is more than just an expense.