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" I came to the United States by myself when I was 16 years old. My parents had about $5,000 in their bank account, and they used it all to send me here because they truly believed that this country was where I was going to get the best education and have the best opportunities. "

Pramila Jayapal

Myself

Education

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" The Indian youth needs to be empowered, and it can be done through good education and vocational training. "

" Our higher education system is one of the things that makes America exceptional. There's no place else that has the assets we do when it comes to higher education. People from all over the world aspire to come here and study here. And that is a good thing. "

Barack Obama

" I believe this system of mass incarceration would have Dr. King turning in his grave. There's no doubt in my mind that Dr. King would be doing everything in his power to build a movement to end mass incarceration in the United States; a movement for education, not incarceration. "

" The American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one's children, and have a secure job to provide these and other goals. "

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

" The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience. "

" If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else. "

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

Charles B. Rangel

Education

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" Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Education

People

Seriously

" Can you be a progressive if you're anti-immigrant but pro-choice? No! "

" I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education. In order to appreciate cultures of another nation, one needs to go there, know the people and mingle with the culture of that country. One way to do that, if one is lucky enough, is to buy things from those cultures. "

" Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind. "

" Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly. "

" I believe economic growth should translate into the happiness and progress of all. Along with it, there should be development of art and culture, literature and education, science and technology. We have to see how to harness the many resources of India for achieving common good and for inclusive growth. "

" Early childhood education is an urgent educational, economic and moral imperative. Without it, we face a long-term national economic security crisis. "

" We need to increase education budgets. "

" Research shows that when women are empowered as political leaders, countries often experience higher standards of living with positive developments in education, infrastructure, and health care. "

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

Positive

Women

Care

" It is such a tricky transition between education and work. "

James William Middleton

Transition

Education

Work

" Governments never learn. Only people learn. "

" My countrymen, I have given proofs that I am one most anxious for liberties for our country, and I am still desirous of them. But I place as a prior condition the education of the people, that by means of instruction and industry our country may have an individuality of its own and make itself worthy of these liberties. "

" Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty. "

" The cost of college education today is so high that many young people are giving up their dream of going to college, while many others are graduating deeply in debt. "

" The U.N. has brought peace and order to many places around the world. However, terrorism, violent extremism, violations of human rights, natural disasters caused by climate change - they all threaten the lives of people today. Add migration, insufficient health care, lack of education, and the picture gets even bleaker. "

" The only real failure in life is one not learned from. "

" Arts education is a big part of building a 21st century creative mind, and I think that we have let way too many kids lose their way by not drawing in their young minds with music, dance, painting and the other various ways we can express those things we do not have words for. "

" If education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany life during its whole course. "

" You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the 3 R's only one begins with an R. "

" Seeing the world is the best education you can get. You see sorrow, and you also see great spirit and will to survive. "