Civics Quote by Sandra Day O'Connor

Even civics classes have almost disappeared from the schools. So things have not gotten any better.

— Nat Hentoff

I had become increasingly concerned in recent years about the lack of civics education in our nation's schools. In recent years, the schools have…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

And yet 50 percent of the kids who start high school in the United States today do not finish high school.

— James T. Walsh

Education is largely run at the state level.

— Mitt Romney

Education is still, in spite of private education, a state matter.

— Kenneth Arrow

I don't like to have the federal government start pushing its weight deeper and deeper into our schools. Let the states and localities do…

— Mitt Romney

If I was a state, I would like to see education left to the schools themselves, but I don't want the federal government involved…

— Gary Johnson

Public school system status quo is indefensible.

— Barack Obama

School reform is not enough. The notion of schooling itself must be challenged.

— John Taylor Gatto

Government-run schools can't instill morals and character.

— Jim DeMint

Education needs to be our state's top priority.

— Cary Kennedy

Government is so big today that more than half the population gets a major part of its income from the state.

— John Stossel