Ali Alatas Quotes

Today in America, we are trying to prepare students for a high tech world of constant change, but we are doing so by putting them through a school system designed in the early 20th Century that has not seen substantial change in 30 years.

Smart businesses do not look at labor costs alone anymore. They do look at market access, transportation, telecommunications infrastructure and the education and skill level of the workforce, the development of capital and the regulatory market.

The great thing about this town hall format is that it allows us to hear what`s on the minds of Americans. Tonight, it was clear - voters have quite a few questions about the direction in which the current administration is headed.

I have long been a proponent of a guest-worker program between the United States and Mexico, and in particular I have proposed that Arizona would be an ideal location for a pilot project.

We have at least 125 communities in Arizona at risk from wildfire, not because of review processes or litigation delays but because of a lack of federal funding on the ground to actually begin the projects.

It doesn`t make any sense to me to start on the interior of the forest if you haven`t first protected around the areas where the communities are.

Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children could have access to educational opportunities to make something of themselves in adulthood.

I`m angry that the private sector, which is supposed to be in charge of running gasoline into the Valley, doesn`t have its act together to deal with a critical situation, so now the public sector has to step in.

We`ve probably gotten 500 calls from people saying what the heck is going on with gas, and I gotta say I agree with you. What the heck is going on with gas?

The United States and Arizona are both losing jobs to offshore locations.

If American schooling is inadequate now, just imagine how much more obsolete it will be when today`s kindergarten students graduate from high school in just 12 years.