Amy Dutton Quotes

There`s no particular relationship between spending and educational results. Most education spending is actually on salaries, and that`s allocated according to political muscle.

I think Bush`s immigration proposal is treason and he should be impeached.

A nation is an organic thing.

I think the Republicans are subverted by the fact that so many of their leaders send their kids to private schools, they don`t really have the stomach for the fight.

Why can`t teachers end up owning schools, the way waiters can open their own restaurants?

I think we spend too much on K-12 education a.k.a. teachers` salaries. It`s the only industry where you never see any productivity increases.

If you`re going to have a public subsidy to education, vouchers are clearly a better way of delivering it. They should result in some loosening up and privatization of the government school system.

The real boneheads are the libertarians.

The system won`t allow special salaries for math and science teachers, who are sometimes said to be in short supply. It`s hopeless.

Immigration enthusiasts are so hysterical.

I suppose the White House thinks it`s doing what Big Business wants, but it will lead to vastly increased taxes, because all these guest workers are to be allowed to bring their children.

I think good teachers are underpaid.

I think the Iraq War is not particularly tailored to American interests.

I`ve been a financial journalist for 30 years.

Hey, nothing grows to the sky. There will be a successor movement. Right now it`s nascent.

Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses` interests, not the members.

I regard many of the neoconservatives as personal friends, but that`s not stopped them from behaving with extraordinary viciousness towards those of us who raised the immigration issue.

This type of mass influx is simply too much to handle. What we`ve had since the disaster of the 1965 Immigration Act will take 100 years or more to absorb.

The problem with K-12 education is socialism and the solution is capitalism.

I think Bush has capitulated on affirmative action and government spending. Apart from that, he`s OK, I guess. About the same as Howard Dean.

Textbook publishers don`t even bother to advertise at their conventions.