Education Department Quotes

In essence, the education department argues that the quality of the education children receive is irrelevant, as long as someone stands in front of the class.

Texas Senator Ted Cruz said if elected president he would abolish the Department of Education. But not to worry. He promised to replace it with the less expensive Bureau of Book Learning.

Reinvigorating the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, making sure that in our Department of Education, where we see evidence of black boys being suspended at substantially higher rates than white boys for the same behavior, in the absence of that kind of rigorous enforcement of the nondiscrimination principle, then the long-standing biases that I believe have weakened, but are still clearly present in our society, assert themselves in ways that usually disadvantage African Americans.

The Department of Education should not be producing paid political advertising for the president, it should be helping us to produce smarter students.

The complaint of bad pay, and difficulty in obtaining it, is almost generally reiterated through every department of education.

Everybody knows that the dumbest people in any American university are in the education department, and English after that.

We at the Department of Education are going to provide technical assistance; I've committed $14 million to show states how they might meet this more sophisticated approach.

Michele Bachmann said that if she is elected president, she would consider eliminating the Department of Education because "the states could do a gooder job.

The Department of Education engages in fanciful rhetoric.

I urge the Department of Education not to settle for half-measures when it comes to students.

We need to prioritize those expenditures of the federal government in A, B and C priorities... And I believe that on the C priority list are things like the Departments of Education and Energy, and those are the places where we should begin those defunding.