“America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.”

“The zeitgeist is for cutting spending and balancing the budget. But I do not want the Republican Party to be perceived as putting the budget ahead of people, jobs and education.”

“Every educated person is a future enemy.”

“We are currently working on new policies to protect and create American jobs, particularly by improving education. We need more information in order to find the best solutions to this increasing concern for American families.”

“To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.”

“You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.”

“I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.”

“Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.”

“More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature.”