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" A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty. "

Charles B. Rangel

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" The best students come from homes where education is revered: where there are books, and children see their parents reading them. "

" It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything. "

" The promise of education reform can never be fulfilled without adequate funding, and by shortchanging our schools, President Bush is breaking his promise to our children. "

" I've worked in public education for 30 years - as a teacher, a lawyer and union leader. I've visited hundreds of schools and districts. I've seen leaders from the classroom to the national stage who have been willing to set aside their differences and do the hard work that's necessary to create real, enduring change. "

Randi Weingarten

" Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information. "

" As a Korean War veteran, I know firsthand and understand the sacrifices made by our men and women in uniform. "

Charles B. Rangel

" The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life. "

" My father was absolutely no good. "

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" Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included. "

" American liberals have become addicted to the courtroom, relying on judges and lawyers rather than elected leaders and the ballot box, as the primary means of effecting their social agenda on everything from gay marriage to assisted suicide to the use of vouchers for private-school education. "

" My parents fled from a Cuban dictatorship in search of freedom. Growing up, I saw my parents struggle... I am here today because of them. My success is their success. Their sacrifice and perseverance made my education possible. "

Alexander Acosta

" Besides taking jobs from American workers, illegal immigration creates huge economic burdens on our health care system, our education system, our criminal justice system, our environment, our infrastructure and our public safety. "

" Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators. "

Amos Bronson Alcott

" One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education. "

Chris Van Hollen

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

" All over the world, we're seeing access to food, clean water, education and healthcare improve; as a result, global innovation is rising as well. "

Peter Diamandis

" In terms of the actual curriculum for management education, my own view is very simple-minded: The world is incredibly complex, it changes all the time, and we should not even hope that we could create a general model that accurately describes the world in all its possible states. "

" Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled. "

" There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don't. "

Steven Soderbergh

" Everything that makes man's life worthwhile - family, work, education, a place to rear one's children and a place to rest one's head - all this depends on the decisions of government; all can be swept away by a government which does not heed the demands of its people, and I mean all of its people. "

" Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. "

" Economic prosperity and quality education for our children are inexorably linked. "

Jon Huntsman, Jr.

" As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing. "

" Our education system is increasingly embracing a black-and-white way of thinking, in which 'learning' and 'play' are diametrically opposed. 'Learning' is the serious stuff that happens inside a classroom and can be measured via multiple choice questions and a No. 2 pencil. 'Play' is frivolous, fun, and worst of all, optional. "

" The goal of higher education should be to champion the airing of all honest viewpoints. Nothing less is acceptable. "

" We need to increase education budgets. "

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