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I don't know if I'm a national education figure. -- Jeb Bush
Let them be reassured, it has never been one of our intentions to ban religion in society, but solely to protect the national education system from any conspicuous display of religious affiliation. -- Jean-Pierre Raffarin
I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist. -- Richard Cobden
I'd rather see the United States as a beacon of good work and good citizenship, rather than as #1 on some international educational measurement. -- Howard Gardner
...International education cannot be the work of one country. It is the responsibility and promise of all nations. It calls for free exchange and full collaboration...The knowledge of our citizens is one treasure which grows only when it is shared. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
I am as sure as I am of the fact of Christ's reign, that a comprehensive and centralised system of national education, separated from religion, as is now commonly proposed, will prove the most appalling enginery for the propagation of anti-Christian and atheistic unbelief and of anti-social nihilistic ethics, social and political, which this sin-rent world has ever seen. -- Archibald Alexander Hodge
Education and research is national, not E.U., business. -- Tim Hunt
Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child. -- Charles Handy
I've been working with the National Lung Health Education Program to raise awareness about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. -- Loni Anderson
When National Guardsmen shot four unarmed students at Kent State, virtually the entire system of higher education shuddered and stopped. -- Nancy Gibbs
Early childhood education is an urgent educational, economic and moral imperative. Without it, we face a long-term national economic security crisis. -- J. B. Pritzker
Fascinated by history during my secondary education, then by physics and mechanics at the Ecole Polytechnique, I finally entered the national administration of mines in 1936. -- Maurice Allais
I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education. -- Jonathan Kozol
Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are weaker in terms of national security. No great military power has ever remained so without great economic power. -- Jon Meacham
Whether the task is fixing health care, upgrading K-12 education, bolstering national security, or a host of other missions, the U.S. is better at patching problems than fixing them. -- Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
People were concerned about national security, and that precluded us from having the opportunity to break through on the issues that we cared most about - the economy, education and health care. -- Tom Daschle
Dr. Margaret Oda, a true trailblazer in education, served as Honolulu school district superintendent and was the driving force behind the middle-school concept and the first chairwoman of the Japanese American National Museum. -- Colleen Hanabusa
Americans have long trusted the views of Democrats on the environment, the economy, education, and health care, but national security is the one matter about which Republicans have maintained what political scientists call 'issue ownership.' -- Samantha Power
Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority. -- Rutherford B. Hayes
What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts. -- Stephen King
Higher education should be based on quality, not quantity; receive merit-based funding; and be free of unnecessary bureaucracy. Not the least of the benefits of educational reform is to foster the pride of achievement at national and international levels. -- Ahmed Zewail
One of the critical issues that we have to confront is illegal immigration, because this is a multi-headed Hydra that affects our economy, our health care, our health care, our education systems, our national security, and also our local criminality. -- Allen West
At their core, Americans all want the same basic things: a quality education for their children, a good job so they can provide for their families, healthcare and affordable prescription drugs, security during retirement, a strongly equipped military and national security. -- Ruben Hinojosa
The National Education Association is the al-Qaida of education. -- Ilana Mercer
Educational progress is a national concern; education is a private one. -- Nikki Giovanni
National education to be truly national must reflect the national condition for the time being. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I do regard spinning and weaving as a necessary part of any national system of education. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child -- Charles Handy
Higher education is booming in the United States; the Gross National Mind is mounting along with the Gross National Product. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
Now, the education of our children is of national concern, and if they are not educated properly, it is a national calamity. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The intensity of a national culture should be represented by... the general education level and... the exceptional merit of a small elite of pioneers. -- George Sarton
[I am] confident that Congress will pass the Kennedy-Hatch KidCare bill, a first step toward the single-payer socialized medicine system that the NEA [National Education Association] has endorsed for years. -- Phyllis Schlafly
In the 1960s, The National Education Association changed its character. The NEA changed into a union. And from that point on you can see deterioration in the quality of schooling in the United States. -- Milton Friedman

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