Nelson Algren Quotes

We can't afford not to fully fund education.

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

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

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.

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.

Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money.

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.

We want to obviously foster a relationship that we're a partner with states; that we all share the same goals of closing the achievement gap, just as the Congress does; and that we're practical and sophisticated enough to understand what they're talking about.

Australia must prioritise education spending. It is not a question of whether or not we have the money, it is a question of how we choose to spend it.

There's nothing magic about spending on tanks and bombs rather than roads and bridges.

That there be equal educational opportunities for all and in all the States, and that public school expenditure be the same for Negro and white child.

The Department of Education engages in fanciful rhetoric.

We are spending a lot of money on our schools. We’ve got to make ourselves accountable for the results.

I’m William Colby and I was the head of the CIA. The job of intelligence is to warn us of dangers to our military. Now the Cold War is over, and the military threat is far less. Now it’s time to cut our military spending by 50 percent and invest the money in our schools, health care, and our economy.

In a democracy you get the army that the people are willing to pay for.

Public schools in the late '80s and early '90s were a total mess... we felt that if I was going to have a good educational option in my life, I would have to go to a public school district that actually served its children.

We all know spending levels for defense and other urgent priorities have been woefully inadequate for years. But we haven't found the will to work together to adjust them.

I actually support President Obama's initiatives on early childhood. He has appointed me as a commissioner to consult his administration on educational excellence for Hispanics in the U.S. We try to find ways to improve the education system for Hispanics in America, to achieve excellence.

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

Competitive programs such as Race to the Top provide incentives for communities to develop new solutions for old problems. Because of Race to the Top, states have raised their standards and committed to fixing schools that have persistently failed students.

I look forward to the opportunity to continue to push for the welfare of our students and the dignity of our educators' work in my role as governor.

Since the LeBron James Family Foundation shifted its focus on education, it's been important to us to document the innovative work we're doing.