Amy Klobuchar Quotes

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.

You can't have justice unless you have truth.

If we are going to ask questions of the defensive guys, then we are going to ask questions of the guys at the top end as well.

I just think, obviously as players, we're held to a higher standard. I've had to watch myself on that, but I think if we're held to higher standards, the owners should be held to even higher standards.

The basis of my politics is, first of all, fairness and honesty.

If the civil society is not transparent, honest, and accountable, then you cannot be a champion of social justice.

It's important to be transparent, to remove secrecy from issues of equality.

It is our responsibility to explain to the public how an often unpredictable system of justice is one that serves a productive, civilized, but always evolving, society.

You shouldn't have one opinion when you're running and another when you're president.

There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.

Justice is truth in action.

My goal for reform is not necessarily to pass laws but to make sure the laws are being followed.

If values matter in an organisation, you have to be prepared to act consistently.

The purpose firm is equal to the deed.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Justice must not only be seen to be done but has to be seen to be believed.

While NCLB drove important progress on transparency and data disaggregation, I think it's clear that the status quo in public education is not working for our kids or our country.

When you're taking the country through difficult times and difficult decisions you've got to take the country with you. That means permanently trying to make the argument that what you're doing is fair and seen to be fair.

It is right to give every man his due.

Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.

The price of justice is eternal publicity.

We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square.

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.

We need a President who is more interested in being right and just than being President.

Justice should not only be done, but should manifestly and undoubtedly be seen to be done.