Quotes About Government

It might also count as an insult to dignity, and a form of infantilization, if the government constantly reminds people of things that they already know.

If government is to respect people's autonomy, or to treat them with dignity, it should not deprive them of freedom. It should treat them as adults, rather than children or infants.

In a democracy, if you don't get the votes, nothing else is possible, no matter how wonderful your dreams.

It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.

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.

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

The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions.

Privatizing our public schools makes as much sense as privatizing the fire department or or the police department

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.

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.

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.

Of all political sacred-cows, education is the most sacred and the most cow-like.

If we give the bureaucrats our children, we may as well give them everything else.

No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.

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.

Eliminate agencies that perform redundant functions... Get rid of the Department of Commerce, the Department of Education, the Department of Energy.

Schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for the Government.

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

And I also thought that Richard Nixon was the greatest political education we have ever had, but it looks like we need to relearn them again.

If the only motive was to help people who could not afford education, advocates of government involvement would have simply proposed tuition subsidies.

We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning.

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

Gujarat is the first state in the country where not even a single student is devoid of insurance cover.