DeWitt Clinton Quotes

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.

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

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.

Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public education system our children need and deserve.

Once the federal dust settles, whether there is little to spend or a lot, education must continue to be our top priority. We can afford nothing less.

In Barack Obama, we have a great education president who is rebuilding America. His Race to the Top program is doing more to 'spur us' to improve our public schools than anything we've ever done as a nation.

This is not a skill problem, this is a will problem. Does America have the will to make education a priority? We know the things that work. Why don't we scale up those things that do work.

I remember when President Bush, George W. Bush, came into office, he focused on No Child Left Behind, and with - and before very long, suddenly, Republicans were thought of as being as interested and as competent in education as Democrats, and why? Because they were talking about it and doing something about it.

All you've got to do is go back and look in the early 1900s and see what we had in Texas without public education and realize what it has done for the state.

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.

Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.

We don't have the money in America to keep paying for the education of everybody else's children from around the world. We simply don't have the financial resources to do that.

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.

Of all our institutions public education is the most important. Everything depends on it, the present and the future.

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

The Department of Education should be disbanded and the resources either returned to the taxpayers or put into the schools.

Millennials are not deeply familiar with school choice, and have some reservations, especially about the types of institutions that a student might choose to attend with taxpayer dollars.

If we would spend on education half the amount of money that we currently lavish on sports and entertainment, we could provide complete and free education for every student in this country.

During consideration in the Education and the Workforce Committee this year, Democrats and Republicans worked constructively together to improve the delivery of Head Start services to the target populations.

The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.

We should be trying to make education less expensive, not more.

I've always considered the government taking one out of every two dollars I earn absolute tyranny.

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

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.

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