“Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.”

“We must ensure our system of higher education offers world-class quality for a world-class economy.”

“The College Access and Opportunity Act addresses the important need to make higher education more affordable and easier to access for low and middle-income students.”

“It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure.”

“As long as she is talented enough and passionate about doing it herself then I will be happy and support her. I think I will be sensible - my parents said I could only do it if I got my education and so I had something to fall back on.”

“To compete in a global economy, our students must continue their education beyond high school. To make this expectation a reality, we must give students the tools they need to succeed, including the opportunity to take a college entrance exam.”

“It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.”

“The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.”

“If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.”