Daniel Patrick Moynihan Quotes

We need to increase education budgets.

We have built tens of thousands of schools, clinics and rural roads.

You begin to see that all of these things are connected: The kind of cuts that mean less environmental protection are also the kind of cuts that mean less musical education for the schools and that also mean more overcrowded schools.

We can't afford not to fully fund education.

Public education is an investment in our future.

One person's pork barrel project is another person's wise investment in the local infrastructure.

The American people prefer military rockets to public schools and flights to the moon to urban renewal.

It is the daydreaming of some people who live in a make-believe world who think you can make roads, hospitals, and railways without any social impact!

My capital budget maintains my commitment to the education of children, health of the Chesapeake Bay, and safety of all Maryland citizens. We will continue to focus on the five pillars of my Administration as we build today and look forward to the projects of the future.

Building a road might create temporary jobs, but does it really create wealth if it doesn't also shorten commute times or otherwise make society better off?

We believe in government involvement that leads to independence: good schools, quality roads and the best health care.

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 we try to compete in this global marketplace, we need to rebuild our infrastructure. We need to rebuild our schools. We need to make sure that teachers and first responders and veterans who are coming home from serving our country so proudly have jobs waiting for them.

I feel responsible; I feel I've got to do something that will leave the kids a place where they can live healthy, safe, productive, creative and prosperous lives.

The principle business of government is to further and promote human strivings.

A community is business, education, and housing. Without those, the community suffers.

The real world is somebody is going to win; somebody is going to lose. There are costs to everything, but if you make the long term investment which is investment in education, public health and infrastructure, then we will have a better world.

I have to build a new environment for the people. I will place them in ecozones and provide them assistance. I will build hospitals there. There will be economic activity.

I think for all of us who call East St. Louis part of our heritage, we want to make a better day for the city.

We need to make sure that our policymakers and politicians realize that we are the future of the country, not only by words. We should ask them to invest the right resources for every school, every hospital and every community.

Michigan's problems are not partisan problems. Potholes are not political. There is no such thing as Republican or Democratic school kids or drinking water. These challenges affect us all. They make Michigan a harder place to get ahead. A harder place to raise a family. A harder place to run a business.

Investment in infrastructure enables children to go to school. Investment in vital public services like health and education gives young people the opportunity to shape their own futures and reach their potential.

It makes no sense to spend precious resources on propping up loss-making, state-owned enterprises when they could be used to get more children into school or provide more midwives to reduce the number of mothers dying in childbirth.

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.