“The one thing we can do is invest in the quality of education, especially higher education.”

“The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.”

“My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from college. As parents, they focused on education, but did not stop at academics - they made sure that we knew music, saw art and theatre and traveled - even though it meant budgeting like crazy.”

“I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.”

“I hope to focus on what I'm passionate about because I think I'd do them best job on them - education, urban education, women and children's issues and literacy.”

“Too many vital education dollars that should be spent in the classroom are bouncing around in the federal bureaucracy.”

“I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.”

“Education is the vaccine for violence.”

“Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.”