Betsy DeVos Quotes

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.

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

As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education.

In the education debate, people are so passionate about their ideas that we often end up expending more energy shouting at each other than we do pushing for the fundamentals to success in all schools.

Los Angeles has all the ingredients of success... but we need to start with our education system.

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

American education is still the wonder of the world, and we must open the schoolhouse doors, not close them.

The most important problem that Turkey has is education.

I'm excited about seeing a bipartisan plan to reform education in the United States. The only other option is to protect the status quo and I really don't think anybody wants to do that.

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.

At the federal level, we must help, not hinder, local school boards, parents, teachers and administrators as they make decisions about educating our children.

I've spent the better part of my career in politics and public policy working on and fighting for education reforms.

We at the Department of Education are going to provide technical assistance; I've committed $14 million to show states how they might meet this more sophisticated approach.

The people of Missouri said they expect their elected leaders to support public schools because they know that education is the best economic development tool there is.

Listen, if the mayor wants to have a debate about education in this city, I got three words: bring it on.

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

Improving our nation's education system has long been the cornerstone of my policy agenda.

If people are persuaded of the need for education and the need to invest in education, they're also persuaded of the need not to waste that investment by having low-quality education but to have high-quality education.

More than anything, we must do better for our children's education.

No matter where I travel in the state, people want to talk about education.

When you think about the children, one of the things that I'm quite concerned about - and I've heard it expressed by others - is trying to find how we can build better accountability, work to provide a level of education that prepares our children for the future.

Investing in children's education is vital.

Education has not traditionally been a large concern in presidential elections, presumably because the president does not run schools.

I believe education is a bipartisan issue, and I intend to support those educational policies of President Trump with which I agree.

No Child Left Behind's fourth-grade gains aren't learning gains, they're testing gains. That's why they don't last. The law is a distraction from things that really count.