Michelle Rhee Quotes

#1. I'd rather deal with anger than apathy.

Michelle Rhee

#2. I think in American culture, we put value on economic success but tell people you don't have to be economically successful to be happy.

John Hodgman

#3. You're smarter than you look,' I say to Raffe.

'But not as smart as he thinks,' says Howler.

'I can see discipline has broken down during your vacation,' says Raffe.

'Yeah, it's all that lounging on the beach with nothing to do but drink and watch women.

Susan Ee

#4. I think that one thing that people are missing is that we are never going to be able to fix this country's [American] economy in the long run until we fix our public education system.

Michelle Rhee

#5. The modern hero-deed must be that of questing to bring to light again the lost Atlantis of the co-ordinated Soul.

Joseph Campbell

#6. You may not do well, necessarily, up front, and in order to be the best, you've got to work hard.

Michelle Rhee

#7. I don't think anyone is more intrinsically holy. People experience God in many ways; and it seems to me that God does what the rest of us do: He chooses the means that best gets His message across.

Gene Wolfe

#8. That should be the goal, is that every kid in every neighborhood, despite whatever challenges they may face, are getting a great education in our public schools.

Michelle Rhee

#9. the sense of apology did not go away; it was a tiring thing to carry. -

Elizabeth Strout

#10. My grandfather was a teacher, my grandmother on my mom's side, four of my aunts, my sister-in-law, my best friend. So I've always, my entire life, been surrounded by teachers, and because of that I've had a tremendous respect for what teachers can do, the power that they can have.

Michelle Rhee

#11. I bought all my friends guitars and I had a good time with my money. But then one day the IRS came knocking.

Janis Ian

#12. I was happy with her and I suspect I never knew her.Would I have been truly happy if I had actually known her?

Jose Eduardo Agualusa

#13. We are always going to put the best interests of kids above the rights, privileges and priorities of adults.

Michelle Rhee

#14. Creativity is good and whatever. But if the children don't know how to read, I don't care how creative you are. You're not doing your job.

Michelle Rhee

#15. I do have rough, manly, and mannish, man hands. So glad you noticed.

Anne Eliot

#16. We've lost our competitive spirit. We've become so obsessed with making kids feel good about themselves that we've lost sight of building the skills they need to actually be good at things.

Michelle Rhee

#17. If a country puts its entire focus on making sure that the education system improves, then that's the kind of progress that you can see.

Michelle Rhee

#18. The development of an organism ... may be considered as the execution of a 'developmental program' present in the fertilized egg ... A central task of developmental biology is to discover the underlying algorithm from the course of development.

Aristid Lindenmayer