Chris Bell Texas Quotations

My motive for running is to get Texas out of the 'Thank God for Mississippi' club.

Texas is still every bit as great as it ever was. We simply need leaders bold enough to release its greatness.

I've always opposed vouchers, and I will continue opposing vouchers. Texas won't have the best public schools in the country if we're raiding their funding to send kids to private schools.

If Rick Perry gets his way in Austin, schools in Beaumont and across Texas will suffer.

I'm running because the State of Texas finds itself in last place in too many categories.

Democrats all across Texas know we need to get serious about solutions. That's why I've proposed my Pact with Parents that addresses major challenges of our day, whether it's the quality of public schools, property tax relief, insurance rates, teen pregnancy, stem cell research, credit companies or insurance. It's a roadmap for how we can get from here to there.

I guess what bothers me so much about what I now see going on in both Washington and in Texas is an effort to keep people from finding out about the mistakes of lawmakers and then when they're uncovered, an effort to fool people and pretend there was nothing wrong.

High-stakes testing has basically guided the curriculum in public schools all across the state of Texas and has left us with the highest drop out rate in the entire country -- around 40 percent.