Barack Obama Quotes

President-elect Bush spoke in a forceful and candid manner that it is his passion that all children should have access to a first class education.

Regardless of their parent's income or zip code, every child in Georgia deserves access to a high-quality, affordable education.

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

Education in India has made monumental progress since Independence but continues to face daunting challenges at multiple levels, particularly in terms of quality, infrastructure and dropout rates. We have islands of excellence floating in a sea of mediocrity.

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.

It's not easy for the average family to ensure that their child receives a quality education. And the federal government is not making it any easier.

If we don't empower families to be able to have a quality education, then their children - for the first time in American history, truly the first time - will not have the same economic opportunities.

Access to a quality education in our country is a civil right for all Americans young and old. But to ensure it for scores of our fellow Americans, we must rethink education.

No country which is now developed has done so without providing high quality public education.

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

I'm very, very focused on not only creating world class schools at scale, but changing the public policy in this country that every day prevents children from getting access to the American dream.

During consideration in the Education and the Workforce Committee this year, Democrats and Republicans worked constructively together to improve the delivery of Head Start services to the target populations.

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.

In Egypt, every family is suffering from the deteriorated schooling and university system of the Mubarak regime. What families want most of all is to secure a good education for their children.

Over-reliance on strictly economic justifications has already begun to hurt the quality and range of education at every level of American life.

If you stop and think about our history, one of the reasons we had an American century and there is an American dream was because at key points in our history we made very bold decisions about making sure that there was very broad, universal access to quality education.

I want to make sure every child has the opportunity for quality education.

What we need is an education system that works for every child, not a select few. This starts with providing a quality education for our youngest Americans so they can learn, grow, and become prosperous citizens.

I believe that every child in Maryland deserves a world-class education, regardless of what neighborhood they grow up in.

I believe that the key to building a strong economy in Wisconsin starts with education. Every single kid in our state deserves access to a good public education, no matter their zip code.

Surely in a country that works for everyone ensuring that everyone has access to an excellent education should be the first priority of any government?

Arizona has three of the top 10 public high schools in the nation. We know how to educate a child. We just need to do it more often in more locations, and where we're having issues are in low-income areas where - where kids don't have a parent that cares or two parents that care, and, of course, also in our tribal nations.

Ensuring all kids have access to an effective, talented teacher needs to be a national priority.

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.