Welcome to Charter Quotes, where insightful words from historical figures, influential leaders, and renowned thinkers on the topic of charters are brought to light. Charters, whether they pertain to constitutional documents, organizational principles, or educational initiatives, have played a pivotal role in shaping societies and institutions across the globe. From the Magna Carta to the United Nations Charter, these documents have underscored principles of governance, rights, and responsibilities that have stood the test of time.
In this curated collection, we delve into the profound wisdom encapsulated in quotes about charters. These words offer glimpses into the minds of those who have championed the drafting, interpretation, and application of charters throughout history. From discussions on liberty and justice to governance and human rights, the quotes featured here provide valuable insights and perspectives on the significance and impact of charters in our world. Whether you’re a student, scholar, or simply curious about the ideas that have shaped our societies, you’ll find inspiration and reflection within these pages.
Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified. Maggie Gallagher
The U.S.-led western alliance, while acting as an advocate of democracy, rule of law and human rights, is acting from the opposite position, rejecting the democratic principle of the sovereign right of states enshrined in the U.N. Charter and trying to decide for others what is good and what is bad. Sergei Lavrov
As New Zealanders, we’ve been in on the United Nations from the very beginning, played a role in the drafting of the charter – it means a lot to us that those processes are followed. Helen Clark
You don’t need a city charter to know that education is the foundation of any community. Alan Autry
About half my work in education is U.S. political reform around school districts and charter schools, and creating more room for entrepreneurial organizations to develop. And about half on technology, which I look at as a global platform. Reed Hastings
Most charter schools admit students by random lottery, making it impossible for them to pick only the best. Rachel Campos-Duffy
Indeed the Obamas, the Clintons, and many other elites who oppose school choice and make it harder for charter schools to operate, send their own children to private institutions that cost more than many Hispanic families make in a year. Rachel Campos-Duffy
Charter opponents often try to delegitimize strong testing results like those in Boston by attributing them to excessive test prep – as New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio did recently. Campbell Brown
An early attempt at education choice was charter schools. These were meant to attract the best and brightest students and provide them a level of education they often could not find in their local school districts. The problem is that, of the thousands of charter schools, many are outright failures. Bob Beckel
Albuquerque is my home. I want my kids and all of our children to be able to go to any public or charter school and receive an excellent education. Steven Michael Quezada
The blockchain industry generally agrees that some kind of a national license or charter is the best way to go, similar to the United Kingdom, where there is only one central regulator. Perianne Boring
Magna Carta only came into being in 1217, when the wording had been changed and parts of the original were extended in the Charter of the Forests. This complementary charter covered liberties granted to the common man, including rights to the commons, grazing, fishing, water, and firewood, and was perhaps the first ecological charter in history. Guy Standing
The good name of the United Nations is one of its most valuable assets – but also one of its most vulnerable. The Charter calls on staff to uphold the highest levels of efficiency, competence and integrity, and I will seek to ensure to build a solid reputation for living up to that standard. Ban Ki-moon
Arizona is a national leader in school choice with both charter schools and tuition tax credits giving parents and their children more school choices than ever before. Jane D. Hull
The Election Assistance Commission represents a major, unprecedented commitment from the federal government to sustained freedom and vibrant democracy. I am humbled by the prospect of being one its charter members. DeForest Soaries
Trump University had neither a license nor a charter from New York State certifying it as an institution of higher education. Eric Schneiderman
The U.N. guards the vital principles entrenched in its charter, notably the sovereign equality of states and the inadmissibility of interference in their internal affairs. It is precisely because the U.N. is the chief guardian of both these sacrosanct principles that it alone is allowed to approve derogations from them. Shashi Tharoor
The official Hamas charter calls for the murder of Jews and destruction of the Jewish state. Aaron Klein
I expect there will be more public charter schools. Betsy DeVos
Charter’s merger sales pitch is pretty straightforward: it argues that it has always been too small to bully Internet companies, TV makers, and its own customers, so it has’un-cable’ practices they hope to extend. Marvin Ammori
The Magna Carta was the first class-based charter, enforced on the monarchy by the rising class. Guy Standing
I’m not only a lawyer, I have a post doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I work in serious scholarship and work in the United States federal tax court. My husband and I raised five kids. We’ve raised 23 foster children. We’ve applied ourselves to education reform. We started a charter school for at-risk kids. Michele Bachmann
Terrorist groups share an agenda of authoritarianism, misogyny, and intolerance. They are an affront to the common values encapsulated in the U.N. Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Antonio Guterres
The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man: abjuration of force in the settlement of disputes between states; the assurance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion; the safeguarding of international peace and security. Haile Selassie
Sadly, I do my homework. I’ve a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan. I read the Meltzer report, and then I’ll read C. Fred Bergsten’s defense of institutions like the World Bank and the I.M.F. It’s embarrassing to admit. Bono
Charter schools are not a panacea. Bob Beckel
You have to understand that once an indictment has been signed, all countries that are signature to the U.N. charter will hand a person straight over. You don’t have to go through the normal extradition process. Tony Greig
The United Nations World Charter for Nature, section 21, empowers any nongovernmental organisation or individual to uphold international conservation law in areas beyond national jurisdiction and specifically on the high seas. Paul Watson
We have to remember that Putin was a member of the KGB. He has already demonstrated that kind of macho, dictatorial attitude. Russia has breached their pledge to uphold the Olympic charter. This is a great opportunity for the IOC to say we cannot, given the situation that exists currently, allow the Olympics to take place in Russia. George Takei
The reform process began with the historic consensus on the Charter of National Action, in which the Bahraini people decided on a new chapter of their history. Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
Afghanistan does have an air force: It has two C-130s. I saw one of them. It was nice, a gift from the United States. But two planes don’t even make a Caribbean charter airline, let alone an air force for a country at war. Richard Engel
Charter schools were supposed to compete with public schools, and in turn, that competition was meant to improve education. But that wasn’t the end result. Ana Kasparian
Fannie Mae is owned by shareholders but operates under a federal charter that exempts it from paying state or local taxes. As a result, many professional investors think the government would repay the debt that Fannie Mae had issued if the company could not, although Fannie Mae explicitly says that its bonds do not carry a federal guarantee. Alex Berenson
The problem with Bush is that yes, he’s religious in a fundamentalist sort of way, they read the Old Testament as a sort of charter for the chosen people to do what they like. Bruce Kent
Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive. George Eliot
My father, his values were anchored in the time, but they were also timeless, whether it’s bilingualism, multiculturalism or the charter of rights and freedoms. Justin Trudeau
Very few charter schools are being created in some of the best school districts in the state. If you’re an educational innovator, that isn’t where the greatest need is. John Engler
Freedom is a timeless value. The United Nations Charter calls for encouraging respect for fundamental freedoms. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights mentions freedom more than twenty times. All countries have committed to protecting individual freedoms on paper – but in practice, too many break their pledge. Ban Ki-moon
People still think there’s sort of a debate around the Charter that politicos go into. And I get wrapped up in it, too, from time to time. Justin Trudeau
Of course, the Supreme Court’s work is vital not just to a region of the country, but to the whole, vital to the protection of the people’s liberties under law and to the continuity of our Constitution, the greatest charter of human liberty the world has ever known. Neil Gorsuch
We want the world our children inherit to be defined by the values enshrined in the U.N. Charter: peace, justice, respect, human rights, tolerance, and solidarity. Antonio Guterres
I will begin first to search out this right by that magna charta, that great and faithful charter which was made to Abraham, the father of the faithful, in the name of all his seed. Thomas Goodwin
By the late ’70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the CIA’s overall charter. Aldrich Ames
At any given time, there are a lot of million-dollar luxury charter boats cruising around the Mentawai Islands finding the most incredible waves. And yet the people on shore are suffering. The whole scene is wrong. As a surf community, we have to do something. Rob Machado
Hamas says in its charter they want to see a world without Israel. They want to obliterate Israel. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
My wife has a public charter school for children with dyslexia. Almost every one of them has failed in a public school. Bill Cassidy
I was conducted in the evening to a tavern where several of the weavers who advocate the principles of the People’s Charter were in the habit of assembling. Henry Mayhew
The single outstanding exception was the broad yet precise mandate communicated by the General Assembly in 1946 to prepare as soon as possible the Charter of Human Rights which the San Francisco Conference had not had the time or the courage to draw up. Rene Cassin
If you’re following candidates in a campaign, you get on their plane, and what they’re generally doing is they’re dividing the cost of that charter flight by the number of reporters they’re carrying aboard. In effect, the press is buying them that campaign flight. Richard Ben Cramer
The thing people forget is that the entire world – or, at least, Europe, U.S., transatlantic, Russia, Soviet Union – that security architecture has been in place since 1945 and has been refined. Already, the U.N. charter that everyone signed is that you can’t change borders through use of force or even threat of use of force. Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Within a few weeks the organization for the maintenance of international peace and security, established by the San Francisco Charter, will be formally launched through the convocation of the first General Assembly of the United Nations. Cordell Hull
My husband was working as principal of an urban transformation high school – the kind of public charter school determined to do whatever it takes to give its mostly minority, low-income student body the education they need and deserve to be successful in life. Vanessa Diffenbaugh
I’ve never believed the charter movement was exclusively for socially and economically disadvantaged kids. Eva Moskowitz
The U.N. charter bars the threat of force. Noam Chomsky
Meanwhile, parents, students and teachers all report higher satisfaction with charter schools. People like them. They cost less money. They raise the academic achievement of poor kids. Go ahead, get a little enthused. Maggie Gallagher
Let us search into the records of Holy Writ, if out of this their great charter, there be not a seal grant of a lesser, though like privilege, and this by virtue of Christ, in that we have the honour to be accounted Abraham’s seed as truly as they. Thomas Goodwin
To me, the European Union says there is a charter that protects you; you have fundamental rights, and they are staying silent when they are violating my fundamental rights. Carles Puigdemont
We have a law that allows us to establish charter schools here in this state. We ought to get going on it. Craig Benson
Obviously I’d like NASA to follow their charter – the exploration of our solar system and beyond. I’d like to see people someday go to Mars. Fred Haise
I hate tenure. Tenure allows teachers to put their feet up on the desk and possibly have a job forever. That’s why I got turned on to charter schools. It’s a business model. Every employee and every teacher will be monitored by performance. Jalen Rose
Parents no longer believe that a one-size-fits-all model of learning meets the needs of every child. And they know other options exist, whether magnet, virtual, charter, home, faith-based, or any other combination. Betsy DeVos
I believe that the topic of chemical weapons is critically important for international peace and security, and I take note of the ongoing debate over what course of action should be taken by the international community. All those actions should be taken within the framework of the U.N. Charter, as a matter of principle. Ban Ki-moon
Charter hired me – which, to be honest, took some humility on its part, since I have helped lead public campaigns against cable companies like Charter – to advise it in crafting its commitment to network neutrality. Marvin Ammori
The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved strong enough to control the aggressive dynamism of nationalism. Christopher Dawson
You look at public education system, charter schools, infrastructure, in so many ways New Orleans has come back stronger. Drew Brees
Since his inauguration in 2009, President Obama has upheld FDR’s vision of America as a nation that keeps its word – a nation still committed to uphold the ‘four freedoms’ that President Roosevelt set down in the great Atlantic Charter of August 1941. Nigel Hamilton
NASA’s charter is to give Americans the means to get into the wild, black yonder, beyond even the grasp of the federal government that funded it. Homer Hickam
The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 percentile points. Maggie Gallagher
If taxes are laid upon us in any shape without our having a legal representation where they are laid, are we not reduced from the character of free subjects to the miserable state of tributary slaves? We claim British rights not by charter only! We are born to them. Samuel Adams
Before Juilliard, I was a schoolteacher for a little bit. I taught in a charter school. I was a substitute teacher for kids ages 3 to 6. Samira Wiley
In ‘The Founders,’ his new book about top charter schools, Richard Whitmire traces both the ‘revolution’ these schools brought about in many American cities as well as a parallel phenomenon, ‘the charter pushback campaigns.’ Campbell Brown
The New Deal repudiation of democracy has left the Republican Party alone the guardian of the Ark of the Covenant with its charter of freedom. Herbert Hoover
Charter laws do something really important. They give educators the freedom and flexibility that they need to attain results. But we also have to invest a lot in the leadership pipeline to take advantage of that freedom and flexibility. Wendy Kopp
Why should Iran have a deterrent strategy? Well, it’s surrounded by hostile enemies. Both of its borders have been under occupation by a hostile superpower, the United States, which is constantly violating the U.N. charter by leaving open what they call the saying, ‘all options are open’ – meaning the threat of war. Noam Chomsky
Parents and grandparents ought to understand the importance of making sure the next generation excels – and charter schools have proven extraordinarily successful nearly everywhere they’ve been tried. Rachel Campos-Duffy
I envision presenting parents with a marketplace of school choices – public, private, parochial, charter, virtual, blended, and home education. They then can choose the model that best equips their children for success. Jeb Bush
It’s time to update traditional public schools, charter schools, home schools, online schools and parochial schools. Let the dollars follow the child instead of forcing the child to follow the dollars, so that every child has the opportunity to attain an education. Bobby Jindal
Facing dramatic global challenges, we need a global capacity to address them that reaffirms the importance of multilateralism and the importance of a rules-based set of international relations, based on the rule of law and in accordance with the U.N. Charter. Antonio Guterres
I grew up in New York City. In elementary school, I was a charter member of the Scribble Scrabble Club, and in high school, my poems were published in an anthology of student poetry. Gail Carson Levine
One of my main legislative efforts in education is to help expand and replicate successful charter schools. Charter schools are public schools with site-based governance. Jared Polis
Whoever becomes Education Secretary has to have a love and passion for public schools. Not charter schools, not vouchers, but public schools. Jamaal Bowman
The Human Rights Act is a really important constitutional document, it isn’t just a villain’s charter. Keir Starmer
The ‘niche’ effect of charter schools guarantees a swift and vicious deepening of class and racial separation. Jonathan Kozol
We all have a stake in ensuring that all students have the schools they deserve and that communities are leading this effort, not being left behind. To do that, we must challenge unchecked charter expansion and the forces driving it. Randi Weingarten
The public education landscape is enriched by having many options – neighborhood public schools, magnet schools, community schools, schools that focus on career and technical education, and even charter schools. Randi Weingarten
We must never relent in our efforts to resolve conflicts through diplomacy and through all of the instruments bestowed by the Charter of the United Nations. Felipe VI of Spain
Zimbabwe is an unusual case study in African colonialism in that it was invaded by a private company under Royal Charter. Petina Gappah
I shall work with Congress, civil society groups and local government executives who are convinced that charter changes are needed to enable the country to surmount the unprecedented challenges of the 21st century. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
The facts are plain: Religious leaders who preside over marriage ceremonies must and will be guided by what they believe. If they do not wish to celebrate marriages for same-sex couples, that is their right. The Supreme Court says so. And the Charter says so. Paul Martin
After working as a charter boat captain and dive master in the Caribbean for a number of years, I decided it was time for a change. Jamie Hyneman
Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem. Karen Armstrong
I am glad that Zimbabwe and China speak the same language on many issues. We share the same conviction that only a fair, just, and non-prescriptive world order, based on the principles of the charter of the United Nations, can deliver the development we all need. Robert Mugabe
The key benefits of a Special Purpose National Bank Charter are uniform regulations, standards, supervision, and authority for emerging financial technology companies to operate nationwide. Perianne Boring
I went to the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, where I had a teacher really named Edward Shakespeare. He was a very influential figure in my childhood – I acted in high school a few times, but Mr. Shakespeare got me to lead in ‘The Crucible.’ I played John Proctor. Robert Picardo
The United Nations’ founders understood that decisions affecting war and peace should happen only by consensus, and with America’s consent, the veto by Security Council permanent members was enshrined in the United Nations Charter. The profound wisdom of this has underpinned the stability of international relations for decades. Vladimir Putin
To no human charter am I indebted for my rights. Gerrit Smith
Charter schools are public schools that operate, to a certain extent, outside the system. They have more control over their teachers, curriculum and resources. They also have less money than public schools. Maggie Gallagher
I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools. Andrew Cuomo
If you read the Freedom Charter carefully, you will find that – the clause that refers to education, and it says education must be free ‘on merit.’ Cyril Ramaphosa
From my earliest memories, I loved the farm. My grandfather was a charter subscriber to Rodale’s Organic Gardening and Farming Magazine and had a huge, well kept garden with an octagonal chicken house in the corner. Joel Salatin