#ted

We at the Department of Education are going to provide technical assistance; I've committed $14 million to show states how they might meet this more sophisticated approach. ↗

— Margaret Spellings

#assistance #committed #department #education #going

We know that if we're going to remain economically competitive in the world, and viable as a civic democracy, that we're going to have to get more people educated to higher levels. ↗

— Margaret Spellings

#competitive #democracy #economically #educated #get

I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times. ↗

— Catherine Helen Spence

#advance #age #attended #born #count

The first issue of The Register was printed in London, and gave a glowing account of the province that was to be - its climate, its resources, the sound principles on which it was founded. ↗

— Catherine Helen Spence

#climate #first #founded #gave #glowing

The essence of democracy is its assurance that every human being should so respect himself and should be so respected in his own personality that he should have opportunity equal to that of every other human being to show what he was meant to become. ↗

— Anna Garlin Spencer

#become #being #democracy #equal #essence

I wanted to produce Nancy LaMott's albums, so I created my own record company. ↗

— David Friedman

#company #created #i #my own #nancy

The criminalization of marijuana did not prevent marijuana from becoming the most widely used illegal substance in the United States and many other countries. But it did result in extensive costs and negative consequences. ↗

— George Soros

#consequences #costs #countries #did #extensive

Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected. ↗

— George Soros

#constantly #flux #made #markets #money

Proposition 19 already is a winner no matter what happens on election day. The mere fact of its being on the ballot has elevated and legitimized public discourse about marijuana and marijuana policy in ways I could not have imagined a year ago. ↗

— George Soros

#ago #already #ballot #being #could

Bush's war in Iraq has done untold damage to the United States. It has impaired our military power and undermined the morale of our armed forces. Our troops were trained to project overwhelming power. They were not trained for occupation duties. ↗

— George Soros

#armed forces #bush #damage #done #duties