Marc Benioff Quotes

More than anything, we must do better for our children's education.

We owe every student in every neighborhood in New Jersey an equal opportunity to succeed. We know that more money, alone, is not the answer. We need to redefine success, and how we pursue that success, by the outcomes obtained by students.

We have to provide good teachers, good environment, community involvement with schools.

In the education debate, people are so passionate about their ideas that we often end up expending more energy shouting at each other than we do pushing for the fundamentals to success in all schools.

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

We're all in agreement that our children deserve a world-class education.

Los Angeles has all the ingredients of success... but we need to start with our education system.

The countries who do the best in international comparisons, whether it's Finland or Japan, Denmark or Singapore, do well because they have professional teachers who are respected, and they also have family and community which support learning.

I am very proud of the quality of public education in Nebraska, but I believe we have an obligation to continually assess whether our system is meeting 21st Century education needs.

I believe we all agree that, for the health of Kansas, nothing is more important than education.

I'm clear that we do need to improve what's happening in our schools.

Education reform has as its main purpose to make sure that the education delivered is of quality.

As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education.

I have said it on several occasions, several times from this podium, that providing a quality education for our children is high on my priority list. I will not stop now.

It's not easy for the average family to ensure that their child receives a quality education. And the federal government is not making it any easier.

Parents like options when it comes to their children's education. And they respond to quality.

We cannot build a prosperous state without good schools.

I am going to use every rostrum and every forum and every searchlight that I can to tell the people of the country and their elected representatives that we can no longer afford overcrowded classrooms and half-day sessions. We just must not, we just cannot afford the great waste that comes from the neglect of a single child.

The only way communities will have great schools is if the people demand it.

When you think about the children, one of the things that I'm quite concerned about - and I've heard it expressed by others - is trying to find how we can build better accountability, work to provide a level of education that prepares our children for the future.

I'll continue to fight for our schools.

I am excited to return to city schools... and to continue doing the work to ensure that every child in Baltimore City receives a world-class education.

Our ultimate goal with Real Models is to open a school and I would love to do it here in Miami, open up a charter school.

It's not who you're going to sit beside at school that matters now: it's what resources will your school have.

We used to have superb public schools. I guess we don't anymore, but, boy, the public schools were really something and I am a product of those in Indianapolis.