Bill Clinton Quotes

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

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.

I started my own Pies Descalzos/Barefoot Foundation when I was 18. We provide education to vulnerable children in Colombia and other developing countries. I am an avid believer that education - and especially early childhood development - is the key to breaking the cycle of poverty.

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.

Governor Romney has said nothing about preschool. I think that giving the poorest kids in America wonderful preschool, and three years of it, starting when they are two-and-a-half, is absolutely crucial.

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

The people of Missouri said they expect their elected leaders to support public schools because they know that education is the best economic development tool there is.

Everyone runs on an education platform. We have Education Presidents and Education Governors and Education Dog Catchers, but the dollars never match the rhetoric.

One of the reasons I am running for Governor is to make sure that every child in Arkansas has a chance to go to kindergarten.

Oh, when I was mayor of San Antonio, I pushed for expanding high-quality, full-day pre-K. We didn't have the resources to make it universal, but you could clearly see that that was what I wanted to do.

President Obama is highly concerned with education. He's a champion on early-childhood development strategies. So I like the work he's doing, and I support it, and I realise that he's one of very few political leaders around the world that actually has early-childhood development strategise at the top of his agenda.

I look forward to talking about how we can work together to improve educational opportunities and outcomes for all students while also refocusing the federal role in education.

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

I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education.

We need to provide higher quality and innovative early childhood development programs all throughout Latin America.

Through the Committee on Education and the Workforce, we need to ensure we are educating a future generation to achieve a workforce for the 21st century. I believe the best education solutions come from those closest to the students: state and local entities.

If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.

Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education.

I believe the government should ensure all children are provided with a good education.

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.

We've gotta guarantee all of our kids an education.

Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.

We can't afford not to fully fund education.

I've spent the better part of my career in politics and public policy working on and fighting for education reforms.