Theresa May Quotes

We want to encourage foreign students to come to our universities - to study, research and teach.

We have to demand that governments live up to their promises and make education a reality for every child.

I looked at No Child Left Behind after it was enacted and saw what happened and saw the expansion of the federal government and the role of education. And I said, you know, that was - that's not what I believe in.

Train service is particularly vital for the students and employees of Southern Illinois University.

I am grateful for the great education at a public university that Germany gave me, and that - added to a little luck - allowed me to achieve. Education is the key to a career, and its basis has to be provided by government.

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

This issue is whether or not our government should be infusing religion into (schools).

More and more people in our party understand that we’ve got to have a defense of what government does well, from never missing a check in Social Security to the very reliable Medicare, to the air we breathe and the water we drink, and helping kids to College with Pell Grants. We should not be backing off.

If we are serious about Global Britain, we must recognise that international students bring huge benefits to our universities, our local economies and our soft power.

When I visit universities in the U.A.E., the U.S. and across Europe, I see the faces of the leaders of tomorrow.

If the only motive was to help people who could not afford education, advocates of government involvement would have simply proposed tuition subsidies.

Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Government does not do ANYthing as well as the private sector does, and that includes educating your children.

The role of the federal government, if any, is to create more school choice.

Education should be a right, not a privilege. We need a revolution in the way that the United States funds higher education.

But did the Founding Fathers ever intend for the federal government to involve itself in education, health care or retirement benefits? The answer, quite clearly, is no. The Constitution, in Article I, Section 8 - which contains the general welfare clause - seeks to restrain federal government, not expand it.

The government does a lot of stuff that it shouldn't do - the Department of Education, for instance.

It is not the job of the Department of Education to maximize profits for the government at the cost of squeezing students who are struggling to get an education.

I don't believe the federal government should be involved in the creation of standards directly or indirectly, the creation of curriculum or content. It is clearly a state responsibility.

In Mexico, a poor country, higher education is of quite good quality -- and is free. Ten years ago the government tried to impose small fees. There was a national student strike and the government backed down. High tuition is not an economic necessity, as is easy to show, but a debt trap is a good technique of indoctrination and control. And resisting this makes good sense.

Under the United States Constitution, the federal government has no authority to hold states "accountable" for their education performance...In the free society envisioned by the founders, schools are held accountable to parents, not federal bureaucrats.

Most countries choose to have government run the economy.

There is hardly a facet of life that is now free of some sort of federal action.

The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.

Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason.