With the Olympics, it's world-wide coverage. You know that person's name, and everyone in the world sees what they are wearing, and that's a big difference from winning a national competition.


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We know that if we're going to remain economically competitive in the world, and viable as a civ...
MARGARET SPELLINGS
But the other notion is, we also believe that those folks closest on the ground that we're holdi...
MARGARET SPELLINGS
Again, the truth of the matter is we haven't paid that much attention to high school accountabil...
MARGARET SPELLINGS
We at the Department of Education are going to provide technical assistance; I've committed $14 ...
MARGARET SPELLINGS
We want to obviously foster a relationship that we're a partner with states; that we all share t...
MARGARET SPELLINGS
I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educa...
MARGARET SPELLINGS
The long and short of it is, we need more rigor in all kinds of programs.
MARGARET SPELLINGS
I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and...
MARGARET SPELLINGS
What we know is the workplace is more demanding than ever before.
MARGARET SPELLINGS
Well, one of them is annual assessment in grades 3-8. It's integral to the implementation of eve...
MARGARET SPELLINGS
My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they've been more pioneers on the special educat...
MARGARET SPELLINGS
And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particular...
MARGARET SPELLINGS
Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they ...
MARGARET ATWOOD
My grandmothers are full of memories, smelling of soap and onions and wet clay, with veins rolling r...
MARGARET WALKER
A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.
MARGARET ATWOOD
If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schiz...
MARGARET ATWOOD
If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage.
MARGARET THATCHER
The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many...
MARGARET ATWOOD
A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
MARGARET THATCHER
I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good w...
MARGARET THATCHER
An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
MARGARET ATWOOD
If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word.
MARGARET ATWOOD
Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you're gonna die, so how do you fill in the space be...
MARGARET ATWOOD
I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did,...
MARGARET ATWOOD
When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.
MARGARET ATWOOD
You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come wit...
MARGARET ATWOOD
Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no yo...
MARGARET ATWOOD
Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do ...
MARGARET ATWOOD
Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no w...
MARGARET MITCHELL
It was better to know the worst than to wonder.
MARGARET MITCHELL
My dear, I don't give a damn.
MARGARET MITCHELL
Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you...
MARGARET MITCHELL
Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.
MARGARET MITCHELL
So you are a vampire."

"I most certainly am not." He looked annoyed. "That's such a commo...
MARGARET STOHL
Don't let the bastards grind you down.
MARGARET ATWOOD
When you can't tell the difference between your own pleasure and your pain then you're an addict.
MARGARET ATWOOD
Noise is a buffer, more effective than cubicles or booth walls.
MARGARET HEFFERNAN
Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.
MARGARET FULLER
Women should be permitted to volunteer for non-combat service, they should not be accepted, voluntar...
MARGARET MEAD
I have learned to love that which is meant to harm me, so that I can stand in the way of those who a...
MARGARET CHO
At a time of multiple calamities in the world, we cannot allow the loss of essential antimicrobials,...
MARGARET CHAN
Some people think that going on a caravan holiday is a slightly more upscale version of camping. Let...
MARGARET BECKETT
Making a company fit to sell may be the only way to ensure you never need a buyer.
MARGARET HEFFERNAN
The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but ...
MARGARET ATWOOD
People constantly requesting government intervention are casting their problems at society. And, you...
MARGARET THATCHER
My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years.
MARGARET ANDERSON
It's a matter of the heart... I take teaching at Harvard very seriously and supervision of my st...
MARGARET GELLER