#public

And whether or not the educators who are trying to raise up America's students can actually set and meet higher academic standards, our cultural values make their job next to impossible. It's so much easier for pundits and politicians to point out figures and blame the people who are in the trenches every day than it is to get in there with them, or even to find out what actually goes on in those trenches. It's so much easier for parents to blame teachers when their kids get in trouble than to do the heavy lifting required at home to keep kids on track. And it's so much easier for us as a nation to cross our fingers and hope that we'll "get lucky" with the innovative "solutions" being tested on America's schools today than it is for us to roll up our sleeves and invest our own time, talent, and money in the schools that are even now-- with or without us-- shaping our nation's future. ↗

— Tony Danza

#public-school #education

You would give up your career if you lost your voice for good, or if the impresarios stopped calling, or the audiences stopped coming. But as long as those things are there, I don't plan to stop. There is nothing that makes me feel better than to be with my public. ↗

— Celia Cruz

#better #calling #career #coming #feel

It's critical to have a sound foundation in free-market economics and the Constitution. A great many Republicans in Washington don't have that foundation. ↗

— Ted Cruz

#critical #economics #foundation #free-market #great

Millions of Americans are standing up and saying, 'We want our country back!' Republicans, Democrats, Independents, will not go down the path of Greece, we will not go quietly into the night. ↗

— Ted Cruz

#country #democrats #down #go #greece

I'm not against government involvement in times of need. I am for recognizing that big public companies will continue to cut jobs in an effort to prop up stock prices, which in turn stimulates the need for more government involvement. ↗

— Mark Cuban

#am #big #companies #continue #cut

Make sure you are the boss. I don't think I would encourage executives that work for me to blog. There can be only 1 public vision for an organization. ↗

— Mark Cuban

#boss #encourage #executives #i #make

In my years of public service at both the federal and state levels, I have had the privilege of representing most of the communities that make up Congressional District 21, including Hialeah, Westchester, Doral, Kendall, Miami Lakes, Hialeah Gardens, Medley and Palmetto Bay. ↗

— Mario Diaz-Balart

#both #communities #congressional #congressional district #district

The policies on the Republican side have been much better for Hispanics, for minorities, but the rhetoric, unfortunately, has not. ↗

— Mario Diaz-Balart

#better #hispanics #minorities #much #policies

The reason Gov. Romney passed Romneycare as governor of Massachusetts in 2006 was because many Republicans viewed health care reform, mandates and all, as a way to inoculate against Democratic charges that Republicans didn't care about people who lacked health insurance. ↗

— Ari Fleischer

#against #because #care #charges #democratic

The Democratic party has gone so far to the left that people just can't relate to it anymore and the Republican party is trying to go totally to the right. ↗

— Glenn Danzig

#democratic #democratic party #far #go #gone