“I made education the highest priority of my campaign – actually education and jobs – and the reason is a simple one: I think the future of America depends on it.”

Whether you are a Democrat or Republican, whether you are a liberal or a conservative, we know that neither this President nor prior Presidents of both parties did everything right or we would not have had a 9/11.

A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure.

The highest priority you can have is education.

Ideological warriors whether from the Left or the Right are bad news for the bench. They tend to make law, not interpret law. And that’s not what any of us should want from our judges.

I’m still basically an idealist, which translates into getting real things done to make people’s lives better.

Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble.

When a nominee doesn’t get 60 votes, you shouldn’t change the rules, you should change the nominee.

The Democratic Party was always there on crime, but in the past we let the ideologues on the left dominate. The Republicans may still let the ideologues on the right dominate.

I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me.

Candidates With Deeply Held Christian Beliefs Are Unfit and Disqualified From Serving As A Federal Judge.

People are angry and dispirited about government because of a failure to do something about crime.

Let me say this, to all of the chattering class that so much focuses on those little tiny, yes, porky amendments – the American people really don’t care.

I don’t think we should be putting first-time drug offenders in jail for five years. It’s a waste of resources.

But these days there are a lot of younger people who would like to go into teaching but don’t because the economic opportunities are sometimes elsewhere.

If we are going to stay a great power and I hope and pray we will we need the truth. We need to know what is going right and we need to know what is going wrong. There is no greater time than now.

This is government’s primary function – to keep us safe – and when large percentages in America don’t feel safe, they start asking: What am I paying my taxes for? What is government all about?

I never saw a fruit-bearing Christian who was not a student of the Bible.

God does not look at riches, titles, education, or beauty. There is only one thing that God does look at, and that is the soul.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

If we want to invest in the prosperity of our nation, we must invest in the education of our children so that their talents may be fully employed.

Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.

If I can look at your zip code and I can tell whether you’re going to get a good education, we’ve got a real problem.

So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it’s a better education overall.

The highest priority you can have is education.