Politics Quote by Mike Davis

As politics is disconnected from its ethical and material moorings, it becomes easier to punish and imprison young people than to educate them.

— Henry Giroux

We're spending, on average, three times more for prison than for public-school pupils. That's the dumbest investment policy. It doesn't make us safer.

— Marian Wright Edelman

“We have been spending far more for prison institutions than for higher education in the last 20 years. What does that say about our…

— Christopher Zoukis

It has been difficult for [young people in the U.S.] to connect the dots between rising tuition costs and other assaults on their dignity…

— Henry Giroux

You shouldn't have a profit motivation to fill prison cells with young Americans.

— Hillary Clinton

As I have pointed out time and again, it's a hell of a lot cheaper to send little kids to school than it is…

— Molly Ivins

“The massive prison construction represents a commitment by our nation to plan for social failure by spending billions of dollars to lock up hundreds…

— Steven Donziger

Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane…

— John Adams

If we can make sure that that young boys starting at the age of three or four already knows their colors and their letters…

— Barack Obama

The money we spend on education should follow the choice of the parents, not the choice of educrats, bureaucrats, politicians, who, unfortunately, have been…

— Alan Keyes

I understand why Barack Obama wants to send every kid to college, because of their indoctrination mills, absolutely … The indoctrination that is going…

— Rick Santorum

There has been little to no attention from policymakers to the economic inequalities young people face. Instead of job creation policies, our country's youth…

— Reshma Saujani