quotes or excerpts from Hillary Clinton and Lyndon B Johnson

Hillary Clinton:

Learning about my mother’s childhood sparked my strong conviction that every child deserves a chance to live up to her God-given potential and that we should never quit on any child.

Source: 2006 intro to It Takes A Village, by H. Clinton, p. xii-xiii Dec 12, 2006

My father was a small businessman, who taught us by his example the values of hard work and responsibility, Hillary said of her parents. “My mother organized our daily lives and fed us with her devotion, imagination and great spirit. I learned from them the importance of families: how parents through their dedication enable their children to have a better life. I think that’s the most important lesson I’ve ever learned.”

Source: www.hillary2000.org “About Hillary” Jan 1, 2000

http://www.issues2000.org/2008/Hillary_Clinton_Families_+_Children.htm

Lyndon Johnson:

When Medicaid for children was created in 1967, President Lyndon Johnson stated

“The problem is to discover, as early as possible, the ills that handicap our children.

There must be continuing follow-up and treatment so that handicaps do not go

untreated.” (13 Congressional Record 2883. February 8, 1967).

http://www.abin-pa.org/presentations/Medicaid_law_for_children.pdf

Where We Stand

No Child Left Behind (NCLB) is the current incarnation of President Lyndon Johnson’s Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), whose purpose was to raise achievement and close achievement gaps.

http://www.nea.org/home/NoChildLeftBehindAct.html