Beyond reducing individual use one of our top priorities must be to move from fossil fuels to energy that has fewer detrimental effects on water supplies and fewer environmental impacts overall.

I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.

I feel like in America we don't have a kid problem. You think about all these issues that these kids are dealing with we have an adult problem. We have adults that do not place the priority on our kids to get a valuable education.

I have said it on several occasions several times from this podium that providing a quality education for our children is high on my priority list. I will not stop now.

In my family there was one cardinal priority - education. College was not an option it was mandatory. So even though we didn't have a lot of money we made it work. I signed up for financial aid Pell Grants work study anything I could.

Education should be one of our top funding priorities talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled.

Unless we make education a priority an entire generation of Americans could miss out on the American dream.

My parents always made education and school the number one priority. They believed that an education is the best gift you can give to your child.

What we're doing now is we're saying that individual schools can spend the money on their own priorities so that head teachers can decide what's truly important because the big shift in approach on education that we're taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.

By cutting critical domestic programs such as education health environmental protection and veterans' services this budget reveals misplaced priorities.