Kate Brown Quotes

We need to increase education budgets.

Everyone runs on an education platform. We have Education Presidents and Education Governors and Education Dog Catchers, but the dollars never match the rhetoric.

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

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.

During my time as a state legislator, I've pushed for significant investment in public school districts. In Congress, I would look forward to increasing federal public investment in education through initiatives like Race to the Top.

We can't afford not to fully fund 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.

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

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 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.

You can’t reform education without spending some money.

I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever.

Like health care, education is something worth spending on and worth investing in, but we're spending more and getting less.

The promise of education reform can never be fulfilled without adequate funding, and by shortchanging our schools, President Bush is breaking his promise to our children.

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.

I don't think the schools are getting as much money as they should.

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.

If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.

We have every resource necessary to provide access to education for every child on the planet; we just need to commit to enabling it.

We really shouldn't be running education like a supermarket where you compare prices.

The problems of public schools will not be solved by cutting off the source of their funding, which is what vouchers are.

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 less that is applied to education, the less they [the people] will have to pay in taxation

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

When I campaigned for governor, I was clear about where our priorities must lie: Opportunity for New Mexico students and long-overdue recognition of New Mexico educators and staff.