Quotes About Progress

You can't be glued in the '60s. Walking around, going up the pub or popping to Tesco in a hunting jacket.

Our public services and the great people who work in them are improving lives.

When public and private sectors combine intellectual and other resources, more can be achieved.

I wanted a CFO with public company experience; I needed an HR department, new office space, and a board which could help me grow the business. Insight, the private equity firm I chose, helped me with all that.

We think we can contribute something toward the improvement of public education in our country.

That's why I created the New America School - to fill the cracks in our public education system.

It is possible to have a public education system that works.

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

To pine for the days before public education became a practical reality is to pine for an America held back by mass ignorance and mass illiteracy.

No country which is now developed has done so without providing high quality public education.

When we talk about public education, we don't worry about a district. We don't focus on an individual school or a building when we talk about education. We talk about kids and what's best for kids. It doesn't matter what's best for the adults; what matters is what's best for the individual kids.

I learned everything along the way. I only performed five times before I was in the public eye.

All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.

Historically, Kerala has been performing well on the social sector. Public health, education, and awareness have always been our core areas on which we built up our social infrastructure.

Public health research has saved countless lives in the past.

In America there is a public library in every community. How many public libraries are there in Africa? Every day there are new books coming out and new ideas being discussed. But these new books and ideas don't reach Africa and we are being left behind.

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.

Boston had the first public library, Liverpool had the first lending library. Both cities have pioneered medical advancements during the decades and both have the largest economic powers in the world exactly 213 miles to the south by car.

I am a big fan of seeing more women in public life.

I am increasingly ready to junk the public school system.

We know that there will never be a great Newark unless there is a great public school system for our city.

If, as the popular saying goes, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, the people who run our public schools fit that description.

I grew up on the Eastern Shore during desegregation. A lot of white parents chose to send their kids to private schools rather than integrate - but not mine. My brother and I both attended and graduated from public schools. It's one of the best things that happened to me.

Encourage public schools to teach American children how to code just after they learn to multiply.