Rod Blagojevich Quotes

We can't afford not to fully fund education.

We are spending a lot of money on our schools. We’ve got to make ourselves accountable for the results.

The money in the schools overpowers the principles of the purpose.

Real Texans want their kids to have the best education possible, not the one politicians looking to brag about budget cuts have left us with.

More than fifty cents on the dollar in our public school system in the United States is spent on Administration. If you know of a private industry that spends more than fifty cents on the dollar on administration and is still making a profit, I would like to know what it is.

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.

Everyone runs on an education platform. We have Education Presidents and Education Governors and Education Dog Catchers, but the dollars never match the rhetoric.

You can’t reform education without spending some money.

We look at education as an investment. They [the conservative Republicans] see it as an expense.

Look, ideally I'd like to have free money to give to everybody. The reality is in government you have to choose and make decisions.

In education, they say either property taxes have to go up, or we'll have poor education - that's a false choice.

We need to increase education budgets.

The amount of money we spend on education is important, but not nearly as important as how the money is spent.

Like health care, education is something worth spending on and worth investing in, but we're spending more and getting less.

We need to save the education system. We need to remove education from the framework of the political parties that rule in the State of Israel. We need to increase the allocation of long-term national resources to education and never touch them - no matter what.

It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.

You begin to see that all of these things are connected: The kind of cuts that mean less environmental protection are also the kind of cuts that mean less musical education for the schools and that also mean more overcrowded schools.

The promise of education reform can never be fulfilled without adequate funding, and by shortchanging our schools, President Bush is breaking his promise to our children.

Early education is the type of issue politicians nod their heads at, and then when it comes time to make a tough decision, a financial trade-off, inevitably it's about the first item tossed from the table.

During my time as a state legislator, I've pushed for significant investment in public school districts. In Congress, I would look forward to increasing federal public investment in education through initiatives like Race to the Top.

Good schools underpin not only our economy, but the social fabric of our lives.

Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled.

Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.

The United States is the most innovative country in the world. But our leadership could slip away if we fail to properly fund primary, secondary and higher education.

The people of Missouri said they expect their elected leaders to support public schools because they know that education is the best economic development tool there is.