“Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter.”

“I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools.”

“I don't think of myself as a policy expert. I think education is the most important thing.”

“Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.”

“In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.”

“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.”

“There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.”

“Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.”

“The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.”