American education Quote by J. William Fulbright

When it came time to go to the University, it was during the war.

— Daniel J. Evans

When Roosevelt came along, I approved of his program, generally. I figured an economic system should work for people, not vice versa.

— Sargent Shriver

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…

— Lamar Alexander

The ideas embodied in the New Deal Legislation were a compilation of those which had come to maturity under Herbert Hoover’s aegis. We all…

— Rexford Tugwell

“In 1944, the G.I. Bill was adopted to support returning servicemen. The VA not only denied African Americans the mortgage subsidies to which they…

— Richard Rothstein

It started with Ronald Reagan, when he took away the financing to the California universities. It used to be cheap to send your kids…

— Tim Matheson

If a foreign government had imposed this system of education on the United States, we would rightly consider it an act of war.

— Glenn T. Seaborg

My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman.

— George Stigler

And then I went to the University of New Hampshire for two years, and then the war came along.

— Betty Hill

I mean [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt didn't - you know, when he came in, he didn't print any money.

— Warren Buffett

Who was the founder of American education? John Dewey - you know that very well - card-carrying Communist. The American education system, in America…

— Rafael Cruz

I was in Independence, Missouri when Johnson signed the Medicare bill, with Truman standing there. Truman had first proposed Medicare, but couldn't get it…

— Helen Thomas