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"The education cuts in the President's budget are both irresponsible and morally unjustifiable."
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"Trying to educate the dumb with a dumb teacher is nothing but washing the dirty clothes in a dirty water!"

"They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing."

"Ask yourself how many people you have met who grumbled at a thing as incurable, and how many who attacked it as curable? How many people we have heard abuse the British elementary schools, as they would abuse the British climate? How few have we met who realized that British education can be altered, but British weather cannot?...For a thousand that regret compulsory education, where is the hundred, or the ten, or the one, who would repeal compulsory education? At the beginning of our epoch men talked with equal ease about Reform and Repeal. Now everybody talks about reform; nobody talks about repeal."

"This is what a real teacher does: she opens the gates of our minds to the possibilities of the soul."
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"Now, so, if you want to blame someone for wasteful spending, the Republicans are in the majority."

"There are no problems that exist in the District that have been solved elsewhere in the country. Whatever problems exist in this city exist other places."

"African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college."

"But the point you need to know is that no president at war cut taxes $1.5 trillion, like Bush did."

"The Republican Party is in charge. They've been charge of the Congress and spending for 10 years."

"Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double."

"Now we are raising the debt limit 3 times, up to $8 trillion, so that our children and our grandchildren will have to pay for the cost of our expenditures."
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