Quotes About Policy

Whatever we, as prospective participants unaware of our specific features, would desire society to be like is what, morally speaking, we ought to institute.

If you make a treaty first with the United States and settle the matter of the opium trade, England cannot change this, though she should desire to do so.

The United States have no possessions in the east and do not desire to have any, as other countries do.

Policy changes like what you desire come from our politicians. So let them know what you think.

I don't think it is wrong, racist, immoral or anything, for a country to say 'we will decide what the cultural identity and the cultural destiny of this country will be and nobody else'.

Alliances are part of our destiny as a nation, part of our future as a nation and this is what guides me in my policy, what guides my government as a whole.

Social security has enabled people to retire with dignity and overwhelmingly not be in poverty. We have to keep it solvent.

For the sake of our interests, as well as of our honour and dignity, we were obliged to see that we won for our international policy the same independence that we had secured for our European policy.

If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.

Education is too important to be left solely to educators.

Parents give up their rights when they drop the children off at public school.

Education cannot be a matter of charity, Education has to be a matter of Right.

Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.

Education is the single-most important civil rights issue that we face today.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

The beginning of every government starts with the education of our youth.

I think that one thing that people are missing is that we are never going to be able to fix this country's [American] economy in the long run until we fix our public education system.

It's hard to improve public education - that's clear.

Yes, I believe in school choice. Parents know far better than government bureaucrats what their children need from an education standpoint, and they should be permitted to make that choice.

Education is still, in spite of private education, a state matter.

I can assure you that there is no question of us throwing away the tradition of the Grammar Schools.

The inner cities, education is almost worthless, it's horrible. We're going to have Common Core ended.

I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever.

To be clear, we the Department of Education want curriculum to be driven by the local level. We are by law prohibited from directing curriculum. We don't have a curriculum department.