Eva Moskowitz Quotes

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.

You may not be thinking about politics, but politics is thinking about you.

The government's most creative and significant duty is education.

The problem with education is school.

The challenge has been, we make policy in the world of politics.

The most frequent complaint I hear from college students is that professors inject their leftist political comments into their courses even when they have nothing to do with the subject.

Education is not Democrat versus Republican. It's about doing the right things for the right reason for our kids.

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

Politics is an instrument that can transform society.

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.

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

I don't think of myself as a policy expert. I think education is the most important thing.

I look back and see the kids who made it through school - it made a huge difference in their lives, which made me believe in the power of public education and what it can do for individuals and communities and the state.

Teach For America was built on the idea that our best hope of reaching 'One Day' is to have thousands of alumni use their diverse experiences and ideas to effect change from inside and outside the education system.

When you look at our world, the truth is that we're all under the influence of politics.

Once I started the first school, I realized this is what my life is meant to be, is to promote education and help kids go to school, and that's very clear.

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

What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?

The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.

That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation.

I never intended to be a politician or office-seeker.

I was looking for a new challenge and got an interest in trying to make a difference for families. You become more aware of how important families are. They are the key institution in our culture. The reason I got into politics was to try to make a difference for that key institution, whether it was tax policy, education policy, or whatever.

I want to be an activist professor.

I think the whole system of education would change if I were in charge and had the ability to make changes. I don't think I would keep Princeton exactly being Princeton.

Politics doesn't matter, policy does.