Campbell Brown Quotes

Every education law should be based around the question, 'Is this good for children?' And it's not.

I'm a mom, and my view of public education begins and ends with the fundamental question: Is this good for children?

Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.

I believe the government should ensure all children are provided with a good education.

Governor Romney has said nothing about preschool. I think that giving the poorest kids in America wonderful preschool, and three years of it, starting when they are two-and-a-half, is absolutely crucial.

The people of Missouri said they expect their elected leaders to support public schools because they know that education is the best economic development tool there is.

I am a mother with kids in the public schools. People should know that. I'm not just some policy maker who's totally detached from the rest of the community.

Ask me my three main priorities for government, and I tell you: education, education and education.

Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard 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.

At the federal level, we must help, not hinder, local school boards, parents, teachers and administrators as they make decisions about educating our children.

For six and a half years, I had responsibility for leading the Labour party policy on education and delivering on our promise of improved opportunities for all our children.

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.

But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.

I just have a position that any child that's in a failing school should be able to get out, or be in a position to have that school fixed.

I want to work with the teachers' union. But as I said out there, we have to put the kids first and we are letting down a generation of California children. It's not acceptable.

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

Most governors know more about education than other elected officials because education is our major job.

Whatever help the nation can justly afford should be generously given to aid the States in supporting common schools; but it would be unjust to our people and dangerous to our institutions to apply any portion of the revenues of the nation or of the States to the support of sectarian schools.

The abolition of the separate school system in the south raises serious practical problems.... We face the abolition of the public school system. Boldness is essential but wisdom is indispensable.

I’m running for Governor so that all our children can go to kindergarten.

Equal access to public education has been achieved. But what is the good of access to a failing school?

If my child were in a school where he was not learning, I would not wait for a gathering of social scientists to tell me whether it was okay for me to send him to another school.

America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation.

President Obama is highly concerned with education. He's a champion on early-childhood development strategies. So I like the work he's doing, and I support it, and I realise that he's one of very few political leaders around the world that actually has early-childhood development strategise at the top of his agenda.