Cary Kennedy Quotes

The only way communities will have great schools is if the people demand it.

Everybody should be interested in access to primary and secondary education for everybody.

I am convinced that your Mayor must take the leadership role in education too.

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.

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.

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

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.

We spend more than a million dollars a year on our colleges and university, and it is money well spent; but we must have education that fits not the few but the many for the business of life.

I am very proud of the quality of public education in Nebraska, but I believe we have an obligation to continually assess whether our system is meeting 21st Century education needs.

Good schools underpin not only our economy, but the social fabric of our lives.

Also, if we take back our schools and concentrate on improving them so our children get a better education, they will be better trained to compete for a job locally.

Well, we have to provide the world's best schools. We certainly don't have them, but that's our objective.

We've gotta guarantee all of our kids an education.

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

Over the next two years UNICEF will focus on improving access to and the quality of education to provide children who have dropped out of school or who work during school hours the opportunity to gain a formal education!

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.

I was very happy being education minister and deputy to John Cain.

The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice.

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

President-elect Bush spoke in a forceful and candid manner that it is his passion that all children should have access to a first class education.

I want to be an activist professor.

I have said it on several occasions, several times from this podium, that providing a quality education for our children is high on my priority list. I will not stop now.

Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people.

We cannot build a prosperous state without good schools.

I am going to use every rostrum and every forum and every searchlight that I can to tell the people of the country and their elected representatives that we can no longer afford overcrowded classrooms and half-day sessions. We just must not, we just cannot afford the great waste that comes from the neglect of a single child.