We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense not political agendas.

Why should we not expect self-designated environmental leaders to practice what they preach?

Moreover the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.

The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented.

We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand.

No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.

I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?

Where the private sector or anyone else has skills knowledge and resources that can help to deliver a high quality of education and to raise standards we should use them.

The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself absent this attainment education creates dangerous stupefying conformity.

President Obama is a principled man who has worked hard to put healthcare and a good education in the reach of millions of Americans and believes that everyone who works hard and plays by the rules should have a fair shot at the American dream.

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education.

Too many vital education dollars that should be spent in the classroom are bouncing around in the federal bureaucracy.

Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school.

Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments and if need be supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority.

Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet respectful tones but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.

Education should be one of our top funding priorities talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled.

I am a firm believer in education and have worked very hard to tell young Latinos that they must go to college and that if possible they should pursue an advanced degree. I am convinced that education is the great equalizer.

I did get a very fine education and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities.

No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education.

Further Education should be about the ability to learn not the ability to pay - everyone who is able should have the opportunity regardless of their family background. I don't want to see students struggling with huge debts or frightened off even going to university in the first place.

I believe that access to a university education should be based on the ability to learn not what people can afford. I think there is no more nauseating a sight than politicians pulling up the ladder of opportunity behind them.

Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby their morals ruined and talents irretrievably lost to society for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it.

The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare?