"When Congress passes No Child Left Unfed, No Child Without Health Care and No Child Left Homeless, then we can talk seriously about No Child Left Behind."

 

Susan Ohanian, December 2006

"For the life of me I cannot fathom why we expect so much from teachers and provide them so little in return."

 

- Bill Moyers, November 2006

"I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me."

 

- Jesus

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

 

Wendell Berry (1934 -)

" The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have little."

 

"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward."

 

---FDR

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives."

 

---John Stuart Mill

"Once you leave the womb, conservatives don’t care about you until you reach military age. Then you’re just what they’re looking for." --- George Carlin

"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy: that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."

--- John Kenneth Galbraith

"Republicans approve of the American farmer, but they are willing to help him go broke. They stand four-square for the American home–but not for housing. They are strong for labor–but they are stronger for restricting labor’s rights. They favor minimum wage–the smaller the minimum wage the better. They endorse educational opportunity for all–but they won’t spend money for teachers or for schools. They think modern medical care and hospitals are fine–for people who can afford them. They consider electrical power a great blessing–but only when the private power companies get their rake-off. They think American standard of living is a fine thing–so long as it doesn’t spread to all the people. And they admire the Government of the United States so much that they would like to buy it."

 

--- Harry S. Truman

"Teach your children to regard the land as a living thing, an ecosystem of which we are a part, not a commodity that belongs to us."

 

- Rev. Robin Myers, 2006

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

 

Chinese Proverb

"There are those who believe that if you just legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, that their prosperity will leak through on those below. The Democratic idea has been that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous, their prosperity will find its way up and through every class that rests upon it."

 

- William Jennings Bryan, 1896, "Cross of Gold" speech

"There are those who believe that if you just legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, that their prosperity will leak through on those below. The Democratic idea has been that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous, their prosperity will find its way up and through every class that rests upon it."

 

- William Jennings Bryan, 1896, "Cross of Gold" speech

 

How well has that worked in Eastern KY and our inner cities?

"The reactionaries hold that government policies should be designed for the special benefit of small groups of people who occupy positions of wealth and substance. Their theory seems to be that if these groups are prosperous, they will pass along some of their prosperity to the rest of us. This can be described as the "trickle-down theory".

 

- Harry Truman, November 1949

How well has that worked in Eastern KY and our inner cities?

 

I'm with you. Trickle-down hasn't worked for the masses; wealth disparity is greater than ever.