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"I just have a position that any child that's in a failing school should be able to get out, or be in a position to have that school fixed."
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"Made it through high school, went to the University of Minnesota."
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"You can take a school like the University of Colorado, with a selective admission standard. It has a better caliber student going in, so you ought to have a better caliber coming out."
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"Give a lift to a tomato, you expect her to be nice, don't ya? After all, what kind of dames thumb rides, Sunday school teachers?"
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"I learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young."
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"Sunday school don't make you cool forever."
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"I was born in St. Andrew's and raised in Kingston then I attended the Alpha Boy's school."
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"Going to school is an everyday process; it isn't something we accomplish and are all done with."
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"It wasn't until school that we realised that we were abnormal."
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"High school, you don't want to go back and do it over again."
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"It's a staggering transition for high school students that found they could study five hours a week and make As and Bs."
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"The current Michigan Constitution was written in 1961 and '62."
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"The Clean Michigan Initiative has been and continues to be a success."
Success
"I created no authority that wasn't already there under the constitution."
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"Manufacturers account for nearly 60 percent of all industrial research and development."
Development
"Very few charter schools are being created in some of the best school districts in the state. If you're an educational innovator, that isn't where the greatest need is."
Being
"We have broken the cycle of dependency. People have found out they're better off working."
People
"I had made a decision early on that we were going to do the right things and that if they worked we were going to be very successful. And if for some reason they didn't, all the claims and the protestations and the excuses wouldn't make any difference."
Success
"I just have a position that any child that's in a failing school should be able to get out, or be in a position to have that school fixed."
School
"All 50 states had the same national economy. And on virtually any measurement you wish to look at, Michigan has moved up and improved against the others."
Economy
"I wish we could have acted quicker on Detroit or other failing schools."
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