George W. Bush

If we've learned anything over the last generations, money alone doesn't make a good school. It certainly helps. But... it's time to spend billions of dollars and get good results.

We believe strongly the best path to education reform is to trust the local people.

The first step to making sure that a child is not shuffled through is to test that child as to whether or not he or she can read and write, or add and subtract.

Freedom is the precious gift that one generation can pass to the next. It is a gift and a promise that I intend to keep to the American children.

There's no greater challenge than to make sure that every child... receives a first-class education in America.

The Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan will restore, preserve, and protect the more than 2.4 million acres of the Everglades and the South Florida Ecosystem.

As the ecosystem is restored, all interests seek a level of assurance that they will receive the anticipated benefits from the Plan.

To be a mom or a dad is to be your child's first and most important teacher.

We are counting on your energy and your imagination to make these reforms real for America's children.

This Nation has waited many years for major reform in education.

In return for this commitment, my administration and the American people expect results.

The overarching objective of the Plan is the restoration, preservation, and protection of the South Florida Ecosystem, while providing for other water-related needs of the region.

This bill focuses on reading.

Yours is indeed a noble profession, and our society is better off because you decided to teach.

It is more important to focus on our children than political parties in the country.

We want to know; we need to know.

Something must happen if there's failure.

Winter wouldn't just be right without a trip to New Hampshire.

The third principle of this bill is that we have got to trust the local folks on how to achieve standards, to meet the standards.

The fundamental principle of this bill is that every child can learn, we expect every child to learn, and you must show us whether or not every child is learning.

Good people from both parties can achieve something strong for America.

Your families are engaged in a noble and just cause.

Support your public schools.

This war is really about your future.

This bill also wages a battle against illiteracy.