“Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.”

“Very likely education does not make very much difference.”

“Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.”

“My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table I had a tremendous music education.”

“Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.”

“We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning.”

“You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth.”

“The key to education is the experience of beauty.”

“A postsecondary education is the ticket to economic success in America.”