Susana Martinez Quotes

As a young man, I saw families prosper without reading because there were always sufficient opportunities for willing workers who could follow simple instructions. This is no longer the case. Children who don't read are, in the main, destined for lesser lives. I feel a deep sense of responsibility to change this.

Tragically, the White House Task Force on Disadvantaged Youth reported that one-quarter of our young people are at serious risk of not achieving productive adulthood.

If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a life of crime.

Why does crime happen? Well, you might say that it's because youths don't have jobs. Or you might say that's because the doors of our buildings are not fortified enough. Given some limited funds to spend, you can either create yet another national employment program or you can equip houses with even better cameras, sensors, and locks.

In the decades since my youth, I've witnessed the explosion of fatherless families and an exponential increase in illiteracy and crime.

I think if a youngster leaves school unable to read you're kind of condemning them to a life of poverty and a life of lack of potential.

Any time you have poverty, joblessness, sub-par public schools, and a lack of opportunity, you're going to have a high rate of crime.

If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.

Anyway, I lived on the streets and did pretty good until I got caught stealing, what was it? I kicked in a restaurant window, went in and took all the food that I wanted, and while coming out I was grabbed.

You have young men of color in many communities who are more likely to end up in jail or in the criminal justice system than they are in a good job or in college. And, you know, part of my job, that I can do, I think, without any potential conflicts, is to get at those root causes.

As a child I experienced firsthand the severe effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially upon women and children. My parents taught me the importance of education and that it was a key to improving an individual's life.

I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency.

My parents didn't have the opportunities that my wife and I have now, from a quality of life standpoint.

Crime is a product of social excess.

Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.

More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.

In the city, a lot of crime happens, a lot of violence happens from time to time.

I spent my first three weeks there on a wing with 21 murderers. I met some very evil people there but also some men who'd had no upbringing, no chance in life.

We have 200,000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.

The part of London where I grew up has the highest crime rates in the country.

Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.

Statistics say that I'm supposed to be in jail. And I'm not supposed to be alive.

Education is the complete answer to all these other social issues.

Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.

He must be a bold man indeed who is confident that he knows what causes crime.