Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

We need to save the education system. We need to remove education from the framework of the political parties that rule in the State of Israel. We need to increase the allocation of long-term national resources to education and never touch them - no matter what.

I'm not one of those who thinks the only way to fix what's wrong with American education is to throw more money at it. We also need to do it much better.

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

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

Latinos care about education, yes, so we need reform, not just money.

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.

I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education.

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.

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

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.

Texas deserves a leader who understands that making education a priority creates good jobs for Texans and keeps Texas on top.

Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled.

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.

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.

Legislatures not driven to desperation by the problems of public education may be able to see the threat in vouchers negotiable in sectarian schools.

The United States is the most innovative country in the world. But our leadership could slip away if we fail to properly fund primary, secondary and higher education.

If we're going to see sustainable results from all the other investments we're making in education, we need to build leadership capacity in each and every country.

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.

Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.

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.

Any nation wishing to promote national education could not expect to achieve its aims until it took it control of education in its own hands

It will not do to say we are too poor to educate the people--we are too poor not to educate them

We look at education as an investment. They [the conservative Republicans] see it as an expense.