“The Republicans have chosen to neglect young Americans who need assistance with the costs of higher education.”

“I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.”

“So I was shampooing at 14. But I've always thought that had I the opportunity for an education, I would have been an architect. There's no question about it.”

“The question is, will we continue to fight what may be a rearguard action to defend universal literacy as a central goal of our education system, or are we bold enough to see what's actually happening to our culture?”

“I really owe everything to my parents and their devotion and drive to see to it that their children had the education which led to the opportunities that they never were able to have.”

“The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.”

“Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.”

“A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.”

“In education, they say either property taxes have to go up, or we'll have poor education - that's a false choice.”