John Perez Quotes

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.

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

We need to increase education budgets.

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.

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.

I want to see us add more dollars to the classroom.

The amount of money we spend on education is important, but not nearly as important as how the money is spent.

The promise of education reform can never be fulfilled without adequate funding, and by shortchanging our schools, President Bush is breaking his promise to our children.

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.

I don't think the schools are getting as much money as they should.

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.

It's not easy for the average family to ensure that their child receives a quality education. And the federal government is not making it any easier.

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

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

Our nation's commitment is to provide a quality education to every child to serve the public common good. Accordingly, we must shift the paradigm to think of education funding as investments made in individual children, not in institutions or buildings.

We need to focus on helping EVERY child to get a world-class education in EVERY school in this country.

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

If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.

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

It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our past - or schools that will be the lifeblood of our future. But since that is our choice, let us resolve to choose wisely.

I'm not just a politician, I'm a guy who has a real deep, substantive, commitment to education.

We've gotta guarantee all of our kids an education.

Common sense tells us that we should focus our resources to benefit children, teachers and taxpayers by keeping dollars in the classroom.

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.

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