Donna Brazile Quotes

Education is among the most important problems we face because it's the ultimate 'gateway' problem. That is, it drives virtually every global problem that we face as a species. But there's a flip-side: if we can fix education, then we'll dramatically improve the other problems, too.

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

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

Countries have largely been left alone to handle or ignore their educational problems as they see fit. In part, this was because we assumed that the contexts and challenges were so different from nation to nation that education could not be tackled at the international level.

… schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.

I actually support President Obama's initiatives on early childhood. He has appointed me as a commissioner to consult his administration on educational excellence for Hispanics in the U.S. We try to find ways to improve the education system for Hispanics in America, to achieve excellence.

We cannot, as a country, improve economically, socially, and culturally without quality education.

I look forward to talking about how we can work together to improve educational opportunities and outcomes for all students while also refocusing the federal role in education.

As a Member of Congress, I've continued my family's tradition of focusing on education.

American education is still the wonder of the world, and we must open the schoolhouse doors, not close them.

My concern for education in New Mexico has always been there. I'm one of those kids that struggled through school, and I feel like I fell through the cracks.

I'll tell you what the real problem is: These people are working under the assumption that they know better about what is good for kids, what kids need to learn to get ahead in this world.

I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in our schools.

Well, we have to provide the world's best schools. We certainly don't have them, but that's our objective.

Teach For America was built on the idea that our best hope of reaching 'One Day' is to have thousands of alumni use their diverse experiences and ideas to effect change from inside and outside the education system.

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.

I think part of the problem is the education system doesn't work - it's not accountable.

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.

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.

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

America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation.

If people are persuaded of the need for education and the need to invest in education, they're also persuaded of the need not to waste that investment by having low-quality education but to have high-quality education.

With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism, like you've got in Africa now and like you've got in Haiti. So what we're talking about is there has to be an educational program. That's very important.

Comprehensive schools, as too few understand, have never been designed to improve education.