Top 36 Quotes About Vouchers
#1. Studies show that recipients of Section 8 vouchers have tended to choose moderately poor neighborhoods that were already on the decline, not low-poverty neighborhoods.
Hanna Rosin
#2. With the loss of Free Choice Vouchers, hundreds of thousands of workers will now be forced to choose between their employers' unaffordable insurance or going without health care.
Ron Wyden
#3. Most poor people in America were like Arleen: they did not live in public housing or apartments subsidized by vouchers. Three in four families who qualified for assistance received nothing.
Matthew Desmond
#4. Without Free Choice Vouchers, there is little in the health reform law that discourages employers from increasingly passing the burden of health care costs onto their employees.
Ron Wyden
#5. President Bush and I had asked Congress to appropriate a half-billion dollars to school vouchers. We didn't get it, and we were disappointed. But we did not go out and form a corporation to pay for it. That would have been a problem.
Lamar Alexander
#6. Hey, great idea: if you have kids, give your partner reading vouchers next Christmas. Each voucher entitles the bearer to two hours' reading time *while the kids are awake*. It might look like a cheapskate present, but parents will appreciate that it costs more in real terms than a Lamborghini.
Nick Hornby
#7. The reality is that the special interest groups that have lobbied against Free Choice Vouchers object to any measure that would empower employees to have a say in their health benefits because it begins to erode their power in the current health care system.
Ron Wyden
#8. Republicans get a lot of money from big business, but they are not tied to the union dollar. As a result they have been aggressive advocates of school reform, charter schools and vouchers for private schools.
Juan Williams
#9. To me, it looks like an opportunity for school choice. I'd also like to see a pilot program to allow true school choice ? vouchers.
David Bradley
#10. I used to sign vouchers and sign-out sheets with 'Alexandra Dee.'
Sandra Dee
#11. I want to say categorically that all the vouchers that I have myself used were paid for, and I know nothing about any others that may have been abused.
Motsoko Pheko
#12. Section 8 vouchers ought to be administered in a way that doesn't segregate the poor into little enclaves.
J.D. Vance
#13. While the romanticized ideal of universal public education resonates with the cognoscenti who oppose vouchers, poor urban families just want the best education for their children, who will certainly need it to function in our high-tech and advanced society.
Clarence Thomas
#14. Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vouchers which will provide educational opportunities to a privileged handful, but deprive public schools of desperately needed resources.
Bobby Scott
#15. Many of those who argue for vouchers say that they simply want to use competition to improve public education. I don't think it works that way, and I've been watching this for a longtime.
Jonathan Kozol
#16. Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#17. Vouchers lead to competition, not re-segregation.
Jim DeMint
#18. Some children lack tools to see their course in the world in far-sighted ways. Just introducing school vouchers won't change that. You have to have nurse-home partnerships, early childhood education, mentoring programs and so on. People learn from people they love.
David Brooks
#19. I'm totally opposed to vouchers. I will fight them tooth and nail.
Chuck Schumer
#20. If you're going to have a public subsidy to education, vouchers are clearly a better way of delivering it. They should result in some loosening up and privatization of the government school system.
Peter Brimelow
#21. Legislatures not driven to desperation by the problems of public education may be able to see the threat in vouchers negotiable in sectarian schools.
David Souter
#22. Yeah, my life a bitch, but you know nothing about her
Been to hell and back, I can show you vouchers
Lil' Wayne
#23. Tara shook her head slowly. "For a dinosaur worshipper, you don't seem to be a god-fearing man.
Tom Wright
#24. I'm merely exploring souls & cities
From the vantage point
Of my ivory tower built,
Built with the assistance
of Opium
That's enough, isnt it?
Jack Kerouac
#26. This is the best thing about men's friendships: most any awkwardness can be ignored by mutual agreement and, true connection being unimaginable, you can get on with the easier business of parallel living.
William Landay
#28. The Monte Carlo TV Festival is great because it's a celebration of television and great storytelling.
Eric Close
#29. Life goes on, after all, and one must always seek the lesson even through the sorrow. Never remain static; never stop collecting information. And
Elizabeth Gilbert
#30. The men don't like their wives so much. They only get married if it's a good idea." Faith
Grace Paley
#31. Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
Gabriela Popa
#34. I may be one of the last New Yorkers who actually drives in the city daily.
Donald Trump Jr.
#35. I write for the still-fragmented parts in me, trying to bring them together. Whoever can read and use any of this, I write for them as well.
Adrienne Rich
#36. With the first word I used intelligently, I learned to live, to think, to hope. Darkness cannot shut me in again. I have had a glimpse of the shore, and can now live by the hope of reaching it.
Hellen Keller
