Limited government Quote by Tom Wainwright

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

“In the United States we spend $40,000 a year to incarcerate each prison inmate and $8,000 to educate each elementary school student.”

— John Grisham

Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money.

— Phyllis Schlafly

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

“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

Our public schools need to be in the control of parents and the community, as opposed to businessmen who see the $23 billion budget…

— Charles Barron

Every time you have an opportunity of opening a school, its fee and funding is really relatively small in comparison with the big expenditure,…

— Amartya Sen

There are countries in which it would be as absurd to establish popular governments as to abolish all the restraints in a school or…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Today the United States has the highest prison population in the world, over 2.1 million people. ... We lock people up at a rate…

— Eve Ensler

“Mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses are the primary reason that the U.S. prison population has ballooned since the 1980s to over 2.5 million…

— Piper Kerman

For reasons that have stunningly little to do with crime or crime rates, we, as a nation, have chosen to lock up more than…

— Michelle Alexander

“Mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses are the prime reason that the U.S. prison population has ballooned since the 1980s to over 2.5 million…

— Piper Kerman