Jim Doyle Quotes

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.

Oh, when I was mayor of San Antonio, I pushed for expanding high-quality, full-day pre-K. We didn't have the resources to make it universal, but you could clearly see that that was what I wanted to do.

Coloradans want to take the long view and invest in our state's future. We know that to do this, we cannot neglect our schools.

The number one way that we can address these long-term challenges of poverty, of education, is to invest in early childhood education.

Ladies and gentlemen: There can be no greater investment in Alabama's future than an investment in education.

Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education.

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.

It's not enough to train today's workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow's workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education.

President Obama's first term in office has been better for intentions than for actual changes in planning and policy. I do believe, and he has several things to this effect, that he would like to provide universal preschool or at least far more preschool for our children.

If we don't empower families to be able to have a quality education, then their children - for the first time in American history, truly the first time - will not have the same economic opportunities.

Early childhood education packs a real wallop in terms of the return on the investment.

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

Every parent wants to do what's best for their child. Whatever I can afford, I'm going to get my kid the best education I can get.

My People First Education plan includes universal pre-K for 3- and 4-year-olds, because the research is very clear that if you have a dollar to spend in education, it's best spent early on with high-quality pre-K so that kids can get off to a strong start.

I want to make sure every child has the opportunity for quality education.

There's no silver bullet when it comes to helping all children achieve. Great public schools are our best shot.

To achieve our goals of educating bold and ambitious children, we must invest in enriching, quality early child care and learning.

What we need is an education system that works for every child, not a select few. This starts with providing a quality education for our youngest Americans so they can learn, grow, and become prosperous citizens.

I have a vision of education that spans from early childhood to K-12 to college to the workforce. Because every step along the way is important: a chance for our state to do right by our kids and their parents - or to let them down.

It's very easy for people to say what's wrong with education in Arizona, but if I'm elected as governor, I want to focus on what we're doing well and maximizing the impact of what we know is working.

In 2009, I pushed for the creation and funding of early childhood block grants to ensure that more kids enter kindergarten ready to learn. It's really not rocket science: Put kids on the right path at an early age - and keep them there.

Middle-class families know education begins at birth.

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.

I believe that investing in our children's development from the earliest age is the single most important contribution we can make to the health and wellbeing of our citizens, their capacity and the future prosperity of our state.

If you're around the system any length of time, it becomes obvious you have to attack the problem at its root and get to 7- and 8-year old kids.