Department Of Education Quotes

#1. 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.

Conan O'Brien

#2. Or the Department of Education and another ministry were worried about duplication of effort, so what did they do? They set up two committees to look into duplication and neither knew what the other was up to. It really is a world beyond parody.

Rory Bremner

#3. During this period at the Department of Education, my working relationship with Judge Thomas was positive.

Anita Hill

#4. 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.

Margaret Spellings

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

Joseph Lancaster

#6. The Federal Department of Education should be eliminated. The Department of Education is unconstitutional and should not be involved in education, at any level.

Sharron Angle

#7. Historically the Department of Education hasn't been doing enough to drive the sustainability movement, and today, I promise that we will be a committed partner in the national effort to build a more environmentally literate and responsible society.

Arne Duncan

#8. All school districts receive funds from the federal government, through the Department of Education, to support anti-drug education efforts.

John Walters

#9. To be clear, we [the Department of Education] want curriculum to be driven by the local level. We are by law prohibited from directing curriculum. We don't have a curriculum department.

Arne Duncan

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

Dick Gephardt

#11. Eliminate agencies that perform redundant functions ... Get rid of the Department of Commerce, the Department of Education, the Department of Energy.

Rick Perry

#12. It is not the job of the Department of Education to maximize profits for the government at the cost of squeezing students who are struggling to get an education.

Elizabeth Warren

#13. The fact is there are a lot of things happening at the federal level that are absolutely beyond the jurisdiction of the Constitution. This is power that should be shifted back to the states, whether it's the EPA - there is no role at the federal level for the Department of Education.

Mike Huckabee

#14. Late 2011, the U.S. Department of Education made a historic change to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act to allow schools to release student records to third-party organizations without parental consent.

Glenn Beck

#15. In fact, NSF was the leading successful efforts to improve U.S. math and science education long before the Department of Education was even created.

Bob Inglis

#16. 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.

Jay Leno

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Robert Moment

#18. Incredible how small a
room seems when you're sharing it with a naked person.

Brett Hopson

#19. 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.

Helen Zille

#20. People don't seem to make the connection between their tax money and the benefits that they get from their tax money, like free education, and the fire department, and police protection, and everything else. It drives me bonkers, because it's pretty straightforward to me.

Michael Schur

#21. Marriage, the family unit, was the "original Department of Health, Education and Welfare."

Michael Novak

#22. I will simply express my strong belief, that that point of self-education which consists in teaching the mind to resist its desires and inclinations, until they are proved to be right, is the most important of all, not only in things of natural philosophy, but in every department of daily life.

Michael Faraday

#23. A new star, the Christ child, God's gift to mankind; these are what Christmas is made of.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#24. But for some reason the Department believed all students should learn the exact same way and at the exact same time, demonstrating that no one in Instruction knew the first thing about children.

Trish Mercer

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

Kurt Vonnegut

#26. I always felt that I came up short in the education department, but I've come to the conclusion that we all get an education.

Michael J. Fox

#27. Homicide central, East New York, Where the manic-depressive psycho murderers stalk

Jeru The Damaja

#28. Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people.

Katherine Mansfield

#29. We do not need Departments of Commerce, Labor, and Education; we need a single Department of Skills that will promote an integrated approach to global competitiveness.

Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

#30. The pace of digitizing life has been increasing exponentially.

Craig Venter

#31. Privatizing our public schools makes as much sense as privatizing the fire department or or the police department

Diane Ravitch

#32. My education started with Latin taught at home by a governess, I can't imagine why, and for some reason I attended the Infants Department of the Oxford High School for Girls before moving to the Dragon School at the dangerous age of 8 or so.

Tim Hunt

#33. How about you, Mockingjay? You feel totally safe?" "Oh, yeah. Right up until I got shot," I say.

Suzanne Collins

#34. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. Stick to Facts, sir!

Charles Dickens