Barack Obama Quotes

During my time as a state legislator, I've pushed for significant investment in public school districts. In Congress, I would look forward to increasing federal public investment in education through initiatives like Race to the Top.

If the world's leaders are serious about improving collective well-being, we'd better get serious about prioritizing education in our nations and in our global discussion.

The single greatest investment we can make in the economy is to make sure that each person has a good education.

Education has become a condition of national survival.

Optimizing return on capital will generate less growth than optimizing return on education.

The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.

Ladies and gentlemen: There can be no greater investment in Alabama's future than an investment in education.

My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.

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 look back and see the kids who made it through school - it made a huge difference in their lives, which made me believe in the power of public education and what it can do for individuals and communities and the state.

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

All you've got to do is go back and look in the early 1900s and see what we had in Texas without public education and realize what it has done for the state.

For six and a half years, I had responsibility for leading the Labour party policy on education and delivering on our promise of improved opportunities for all our children.

Education is the best economic policy there is.

If we're going to see sustainable results from all the other investments we're making in education, we need to build leadership capacity in each and every country.

Education is among the most important problems we face because it's the ultimate 'gateway' problem. That is, it drives virtually every global problem that we face as a species. But there's a flip-side: if we can fix education, then we'll dramatically improve the other problems, too.

The government's most creative and significant duty is education.

Of all our institutions public education is the most important. Everything depends on it, the present and the future.

For every challenge we face - unemployment, poverty, crime, income growth, income inequality, productivity, competitiveness - a great education is a major component of the solution.

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.

When we set up our kids for failure, we set up our workforce for failure, and we set up our economy for failure. I can't emphasize enough the importance, the absolute importance, of education in achieving long-term economic growth.

It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.

We cannot, as a country, improve economically, socially, and culturally without quality education.

Education is the largest and most important investment Utah makes.

A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.