Charles B. Rangel Quotes

I did regret not graduating high school, but I made a point of going back and getting my GED later. It was important for my kids.

I finished my high school. I think an educate is very, very important.

A BMW can't take you as far as a diploma.

No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did.

I've always said I didn't want to coach. But I can't coach in college because I don't have my degree. So I want to give myself opportunities. A degree is something everyone should have.

As I grew older, I worked less as an actor and as a model, and I went back to what I had tried to do when I was young but wasn't really available. I'm so glad now to be in my sixties and to be able to go back to school.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

I think, from every actor I've ever spoken to, they say the biggest thing they regret from life is not finishing school.

I went to college and law school with the help of the GI Bill. That experience moved me so much, I dedicated the rest of my life to serving this great country and helping others succeed.

I wasn't using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education.

High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.

An education is a more surefire guarantee that you have possibilities opened to you.

College education is the engine of social mobility in this country.

A great education is a passport to a new life

The diploma has become a brand and learning should never be about a brand. Learning, the real kind, actually never ends.

College allows you to make better decisions, better friends, and a better future. There's only one catch: when the opportunity comes, you actually have to take it.

Education is worth its weight in gold. Make no mistake about it.

In the ideal college, intrinsic education would be available to anyone who wanted it...The college would be life-long, for learning can take place all through life.

It doesn't hurt to get more education.

I'd like to continue my education. The physical stuff's great and I think it's great as an actor because you get to live a lot of little lives, but learning more about the world, learning another language, continuing with my Spanish that's important.

You have to be eligible for luck to strike, and I think that's a matter of education and preparation, and character and all the other solid attributes that sometimes people laugh at.

I get flack for saying [when I visit a college and give a speech], "This is a nice college, but the really great educator is McDonald's." They hate me for saying this and think I'm a slimy creature. But McDonald's hires people with bad work habits, trains them, and teaches them to come to work on time and have good work habits. I think a lot of what goes on there is better than at Harvard.

My father would always say "learn everything you can and whenever you can, because you never know when it'll come in handy."

Persons, especially salaried people who schedule their spare time, to provide for home study (or attend specialized short courses, seminars or training) seldom remain at the bottom very long. Their action opens the way for the upward climb, removes many obstacles from their path, and gains the friendly interest of those who have the power to put them in the way of opportunity

I was able to meet young black people from all over the country who were focused on education and on elevating themselves.I'm endorsing and supporting this initiative because I believe college is a blessing, and for young black people coming out of areas that are struggling ... for them to see college as their future, that's a blessing.