Our children are our greatest resource. Our public policy must reflect our values. That means not just passing legislation to Leave No Child Behind, but funding those programs. Words must be backed by deeds to make sure all America's children - black and white, Latino and Asian have an equal chance to succeed.


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I learned mainly through television, but I learned how to do mosaic, where you can buy stones or thi...
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I just like doing silly girly things. If I wrap a gift, I like to use specials ribbon and hot glue, ...
BARBARA MANDRELL
It's an exciting life. I don't know where God is leading us. I just know that He opens doors...
BARBARA MANDRELL
I might not be very smart, but I surround myself with smart people.
BARBARA MANDRELL
The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but ca...
BARBARA MANDRELL
I've gotta stick to my roots, and my roots are blues.
BARBARA LYNN
I really wish that I would have gone to college. Even my son, who's into rap himself, I tell him...
BARBARA LYNN
I decided that playing piano was a little bit too common, you know what I mean?
BARBARA LYNN
You'd always see a lady or a little girl sitting at a piano. I decided I wanted to play somethin...
BARBARA LYNN
I tell my grandchildren - I've got seven of them - to go to college and get that degree first. I...
BARBARA LYNN
In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band - his name was Sylvester, and I think...
BARBARA LYNN
I go on stage with what God gave me - and that's a natural high. I don't need nothing to per...
BARBARA LYNN
God has taken care of me, and mother dear has taken care of me, too. All my life.
BARBARA LYNN
I told Mr. Nader today that a vote for Ralph Nader is really a vote for George Bush.
BARBARA LEE
We all agree that we've got to bring these terrorists to justice and to make sure that they'...
BARBARA LEE
What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into somethi...
BARBARA LEE
I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against...
BARBARA LEE
The last two elections were stolen. They were stolen and so we will not rest until we reclaim our de...
BARBARA LEE
I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slop...
BARBARA LEE
We must use all the tools of American power in resolving disputes, including diplomacy. And we must ...
BARBARA LEE
We need to honor our troops who served and show our support by giving our men and women who served t...
BARBARA LEE
I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in thei...
BARBARA KRUGER
I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds...
BARBARA KRUGER
I believe that who we are, and consequently the work that we make, whether we're visual artists ...
BARBARA KRUGER
It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practi...
BARBARA KRUGER
Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages...
BARBARA KRUGER
I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what...
BARBARA KRUGER
Power doesn't just exist. It is threaded through different mechanisms of control. I'm intere...
BARBARA KRUGER
I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are cons...
BARBARA KRUGER
I always say that I'm an artist who works with pictures and words, so I think that the different...
BARBARA KRUGER
Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs ...
BARBARA KRUGER
Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to sur...
BARBARA KRUGER
I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, ins...
BARBARA KRUGER
Women's art, political art - those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality whic...
BARBARA KRUGER
Look, we're all saddled with things that make us better or worse. This world is a crazy place, a...
BARBARA KRUGER
I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of mome...
BARBARA KRUGER
It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.
BARBARA KRUGER