Lucio Tan Quotes

Americans thinking that America will continue to lead the world in innovation and quality of life without some quick and serious educational improvements are dangerously delusional.

If people are persuaded of the need for education and the need to invest in education, they're also persuaded of the need not to waste that investment by having low-quality education but to have high-quality education.

Well, we have to provide the world's best schools. We certainly don't have them, but that's our objective.

Real Texans want their kids to have the best education possible, not the one politicians looking to brag about budget cuts have left us with.

The great challenge before the IITs is to act as a catalyst in the growth of quality technical education in the country.

The amount of money we spend on education is important, but not nearly as important as how the money is spent.

Education is not Democrat versus Republican. It's about doing the right things for the right reason for our kids.

As a Member of Congress, I've continued my family's tradition of focusing on education.

If you think advantage lies in resources, then you think the best educational system is the one that spends the most money.

We have done a poor job educating people about education. Only when we have clarified that can we talk about how best to achieve it.

There is nothing more important to our Nation's future, to our homeland security, and to our economy than ensuring we have a top-notch educational system that is the envy of the world.

It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our past - or schools that will be the lifeblood of our future. But since that is our choice, let us resolve to choose wisely.

I am old enough to remember when America's K-12 public schools were the best in the world. I am a proud graduate of them, and I credit much of my success to what I learned in Detroit Public Schools and at Michigan State University.

The most important problem that Turkey has is education.

I'm not just a politician, I'm a guy who has a real deep, substantive, commitment to education.

When you revolutionize education, you're taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you're priming the pump for so many incredible things.

Texas deserves a leader who understands that making education a priority creates good jobs for Texans and keeps Texas on top.

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

If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women.

I have said it on several occasions, several times from this podium, that providing a quality education for our children is high on my priority list. I will not stop now.

We talk a good fight about wanting to have excellent schools when in fact we're content to have average ones.

I’m running for Governor so that all our children can go to kindergarten.

One way in which Americans have always been exceptional has been in our support for education. First we took the lead in universal primary education; then the ‘high school movement’ made us the first nation to embrace widespread secondary education

Developing countries need to commit additional resources and have the political will to improve education.

Improving our nation's education system has long been the cornerstone of my policy agenda.