Education

I welcome the Senate's passage of the department of education bill.

An educated electorate was essential to a strong, healthy democracy.

I think we need a department of education.

Education is the key to unlocking the potential of every individual and building a stronger society.

He was a friend of working people and family farmers and an early sponsor of legislation for clean water, Federal aid to education, and reclamation of strip-mined land.

I ask each American to take the time and trouble to learn about drug abuse prevention.

All of us, as individuals and collectively as a nation, owe much, a very great deal, to our teachers during our lifetime.

Education is now the Nation's number one business.

Meeting the educational challenges of America's third century must not be the responsibility of educators and teachers alone.

That is what we really want--the money to go to your school districts directly with a minimum of red tape as far as Washington, D.C., is concerned.

I pledge my cooperation and my continuing effort on behalf of American education.

Assist educational agencies at all levels in developing high-quality, innovative health and physical education programs which emphasize the importance of exercise to good health.

The best education is the education you get in the school that is closest to your home.

This means better education, better setting of local priorities, more hope for our troubled State, city, and county governments, and an opportunity in the future for lower property taxes for the overburdened American homeowner.

I have directed the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to cut all possible red tape so that all eligible miners and dependents start receiving their benefits as soon as possible.

That is respect for education and for teaching, respect that must lie in the hearts of the people.

I believe that parents of school-age children should be provided the freedom to choose a religious-centered education for their children, if they desire--and I am determined to help guarantee that freedom of choice.

No one profits by the confusion and resentment that is generated when whole school systems are disrupted by the forced busing of schoolchildren away from their neighborhoods.