Safra A. Catz Quotes

The United States is the most innovative country in the world. But our leadership could slip away if we fail to properly fund primary, secondary and higher education.

Education has become a condition of national survival.

The American people frankly have been, over many, many years - to be blunt - fat, dumb and happy. If they want their children to compete with children in India, China or Korea, they better get them a far better education.

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

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

In Barack Obama, we have a great education president who is rebuilding America. His Race to the Top program is doing more to 'spur us' to improve our public schools than anything we've ever done as a nation.

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 remember when President Bush, George W. Bush, came into office, he focused on No Child Left Behind, and with - and before very long, suddenly, Republicans were thought of as being as interested and as competent in education as Democrats, and why? Because they were talking about it and doing something about it.

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.

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

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.

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.

Our nation's security, economy, and place on the world stage depends on the success our educational system.

If we’re going to be the world’s leader, we have to pick up the pace of American education, especially in math and science.

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.

The country that out educates us today will out compete us tomorrow.

Every time we have made an investment in education, it has paid off.

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.

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

It's wonderful to see more of my colleagues recognizing the importance of investing in STEM education and scientific research and development.

We need to beef up STEM education.

We need to focus on helping EVERY child to get a world-class education in EVERY school in this country.

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