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Public school teachers enjoy a huge amount of job security, thanks to their powerful unions and inflexible work rules.

Teachers are our greatest public servants; they spend their lives educating our young people and shaping our Nation for tomorrow.

When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.

After a lifetime of working, raising families, and contributing to the success of this nation in countless other ways, senior citizens deserve to retire with dignity.

Our teachers are valuable, and our public policy should reflect that.

I respect the state workers and I respect their unions, but we simply can't afford to pay benefits and pensions that are out of line with economic reality.

I stand with the millions of seniors and working people who depend on Social Security and who expect the money they put in to be there for them when they retire.

People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.

Teachers have the hardest and most important jobs in America. They're building our nation. And we should appreciate them, respect them, and pay them well.

I worship teachers. They can't be paid enough. It depresses me that society sees them as somehow expendable.