Marion Barry Quotes

Progress is a choice. Job creation is a choice. Whether we give our children a future of more or a future of less - this, too, is a choice.

Kids may only be 25 percent of our population but they are 100 percent of our future.

The future begins today! What is important is what we do today and tomorrow for Tunisia and all its children. We must work hand in hand.

My vision for the future always centers around our children - it always centers around our children. So anytime anybody asks me what are the three most important issues facing the Congress, I always say the same thing: 'Our children, our children, our children.'

Kids are our future.

My focus is mainly on education. I believe education made all the difference for me, and it is certainly going to make all the difference for other children, too.

We owe it to our children to give them a dignified and hopeful future.

We're all in this together, and we all have to make an investment in our most precious possession and in the foundation of our future: our young people.

The greatest natural resource that any country can have is its children.

We really need to put the best we have to offer within reach of our children. If we don't do that, we're going to get the generation we deserve.

We are cutting things kids like-music, art, and gym classes; stuff that kept me in school. This country can't survive without you kids. It's all about you kids.

Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation.

My wife Shanti and I are blessed with two wonderful daughters. Nothing is more important to us than protecting their future and the future of every Arkansas child.

Children, to me, are of the utmost importance. They're really the future, aren't they?

I look forward to working with UNICEF as they continue to make the world a better place for children.

Iowa is home to teachers, farmers, lawyers, factory workers, and many others who work hard every day to provide the best for their families and their future.

If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.

I'll be working with kids for the rest of my life.

My wife Kari and I have three incredible kids. And like parents everywhere, we want our children to grow up in a country and a world that is peaceful, and where, if they work hard, they can reach their God-given potential.

Kids are important.

If you have children, you cannot feed them forever with flags for breakfast and cartridges for lunch. You need something more substantial. Unless you educate your children and spend less money on conflicts, unless you develop your science, technology and industry, you don't have a future.

More than anything, we must do better for our children's education.

I focus on telling the truth and painting a vision of what the country can become in the future if we make the right investments together in things like health care, and education, and jobs and opportunity.

Without an education, you won't have a future.

When you think about the children, one of the things that I'm quite concerned about - and I've heard it expressed by others - is trying to find how we can build better accountability, work to provide a level of education that prepares our children for the future.