"We are always going to put the best interests of kids above the rights, privileges and priorities of adults."

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Source : "'100 mph' school chief seeks 'radical changes'". Interview with Kate Bolduan, www.cnn.com. September 9, 2008.

Michelle Rhee

#Kids Quotes #Rights Quotes #Priorities Quotes

“Geniuses come in many shapes and colors, and they often run in packs. If you can find one, it may lead you to others. Collaborate with geniuses. Send them your spells. Look carefully at theirs. What could you do together? Combination is creation.”
“Theres so much more bad information than good information out there - everybodys got something to say and its usually wrong.”
“Our own State Department polls say that 80 percent of Iraqis view the United States as an unpopular occupier.”
“Strategic partners are way more important than money.”
“Politicians have responsibility to act if the public opinion changes.”
“I have been trying to think of the earth as a kind of organism, but it is no go. I cannot think of it this way. It is too big, too complex, with too many working parts lacking visible connections. The other night, driving through a hilly, wooded part of southern New England, I wondered about this. If not like an organism, what is it like, what is it most like? Then, satisfactorily for that moment, it came to me: it is most like a single cell”

Source : Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”
“Anarchy is a function, not of a society's simplicity and lack of social organization, but of it's complexity and multiplicity of social organizations.”
“I've got so many weaknesses.”

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