No skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read.

We must now view our problems as opportunities - historic opportunities to change the failed systems of the past and do what's right for our future.

The amount of money we spend on education is important, but not nearly as important as how the money is spent.

The fight for reform comes down to a simple goal: giving our citizens the confidence that government serves the people first and the people only.

No two wars are ever the same. Some are just, some are unjust, but the basic commonality shared between them all is that young men and women heeded a call to service, overcame their fear, and fought for their side

When money follows results - we will get more results for our money

Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and agencies to waste the money entrusted to them by the people they serve.