Quotes About Support

Homelessness is like public education - something that for far too long we haven't put the resources or love or attention to.

I'm committed to spending more money on public education.

We believe in public education. We think it's important in our country to have it and for us to support it.

Since my family is in the public eye, we've got to be strong, we've got to support each other, and we've got to stand united.

Mayor Koch, of New York, was the first public figure to give me support.

I champion sensibly designed racial affirmative action, not because I have benefited from it personally - though I have. I support it because, on balance, it is conducive to the public good.

I don't feel much pressure at all. I have great family support, and they take a lot of pressure off me. They help to control media and public interest.

Most Americans support protection of public lands.

Those diplomas on my wall would not be there without the GI Bill that educated my father, without the public library, without the RIPTA bus.

I said I support anyone's right to run for public office and will support those people who support positions that's in the Republican platform.

If I think of all the family members, I was probably the only one who was excited with the possibility of my dad's entering public office.

If you don't know anybody who is out of work, who needs housing, if you've never taken a call at 2 o'clock in the morning from a neighbor who is running out of heating fuel in the middle of February, then you don't know what you do in a tough situation. To me, that's the measure of whether you should be in public office.

After much deliberation, and after reviewing the legal, public policy and civil-rights questions presented, I support marriage equality for same-sex couples and believe that DOMA should be repealed.

We evaluate all business decisions based on how we can best serve public school teachers and their students.

I was able to walk at 5. I had to be able to walk in order to be mainstreamed into public school. And my father worked day and night to teach me how to walk. And I think what's so amazing about this is the fact that he was told that I would never walk. And he decided that he was going to try.

My wife has a public charter school for children with dyslexia. Almost every one of them has failed in a public school.

My mum and dad both worked full-time jobs to send my sister and I to public school, and to allow us to play the sports we wanted.

The bigger and more successful Salesforce becomes, the more we'll invest in our public schools, the more we will invest in homeless, the more we will invest in public hospitals, the more we will invest into NGOs.

I know I've had a charmed experience of being a parent, with healthy kids, a helpful partner, access to good day care, and great public schools.

I went to big, broken, under-resourced public schools, but we had a real sense of community, because those were days in the '50s and the '60s when every child was under the jurisdiction of every single adult on the block.

I am pleased that through SM Foundation, we are able to do many socio-civic projects and support college scholars in need who come from public schools.

When state funding for Irvine public schools began to diminish some time ago, my Irvine Company colleagues helped me to provide private funding support for continuation of basic science, art and music programs that had been eliminated by lack of state funding.

If confirmed, I will be a strong advocate for great public schools.

Public schools have given so much to our family - I've been proud to fight for them as a state senator and lieutenant governor.