Blanche Lincoln Quotes

When women earn more, families are stronger, and children have better access to quality health care and education.

Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter.

Whether it's making sure that a person has access to a doctor when they need one, investing in excellent first class educations for our children or making sure that working people are able to provide for their families and put food on the table when they put in an honest day's work, I will continue to put people and families first.

We really need to put the best we have to offer within reach of our children. If we don't do that, we're going to get the generation we deserve.

A considerable share of the world's population still cannot afford comfortable housing, education and quality health care.

I don't know of a Democrat - whether they're a conservative, a centrist or a liberal Democrat - that doesn't think that it's important to have quality jobs that pay decent wages so that families can support themselves, so that they can have the dignity of being able to afford health care, put money aside for pension, buy a home.

I'm committed to universal health coverage and education.

We must make children and families a national priority.

We won't get economic growth if we don't look after our mothers and the potential of the next generation. They need to be prioritised.

If, like me, nothing is more important to you than our children's future, then their opportunities must be protected.

Education, day care, health care—there's not a parent in the country that doesn't have a stake in one of these issues.

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

I wish that every Chinese citizen can live a life of satisfaction, every peasant child can go to school and every person reaching a working age can have a job. I wish people wouldn't have to worry about medical care if they are sick, particularly those in rural areas. I believe that this is the dream of every Chinese person.

What good is telling America's children that they will have equal opportunity for education if they don't have the skills that will even get them to the point of benefiting from education, because they didn't have the child care, the health care that would enable them to grow as strong and constructive human beings?

I've always admired the work that Save the Children does to improve the lives of children and their families all over the world.

I believe that every American should have stable, dignified housing; health care; education - that the most very basic needs to sustain modern life should be guaranteed in a moral society.

People come to me with their passion about transportation, about education, about health care, about agriculture, the dairy industry, the almond growers. I'm just a kid in a candy store, learning and eating up all this different knowledge.

Health care is not a privilege. It's a right. It's a right as fundamental as civil rights. It's a right as fundamental as giving every child a chance to get a public education.

We can't afford to sacrifice another generation of American children to bureaucratic politics. We've got to get it done. The future, the health, the life - our nation depends on it and it's just foolish to think or act otherwise.

As we get closer to the end of this Congress, we should be addressing the urgent needs of the American people - the war in Iraq, affordable health care, a sensible energy policy, quality education for our children, retirement security, and a sound and fair fiscal policy.

If you can teach a child, then her family and her future is taken care of.

Women have to be very vigilant, and demand the very best in public schools, health care and pay, those things that men and women of this state value are at risk.

I've always had a strong love and a sense of care for kids. And the one thing is evident and is so true - the kids are our future.

Through the Committee on Education and the Workforce, we need to ensure we are educating a future generation to achieve a workforce for the 21st century. I believe the best education solutions come from those closest to the students: state and local entities.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.