Bernie Sanders Quotes

We used to be the country with the highest percentage of college graduates. We are no more and the gap is widening.

In the 1940s, about 20% of people in the U.S. had graduated from high school, but less than 5% continued their education to get bachelors' degrees or higher.

We have too few college graduates. We also have too few people who are prepared for college.

This year, we must address the Colorado Paradox. We have more college degrees per capita than any state. Yet we lag the nation in the percentage of students who go on to higher education.

We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world.

One half who graduate from college never read another book.

Every young man that we want to bring here to the University of Georgia, we want them to graduate from this place.

Keeping our kids engaged and in school must become a national priority.

The one thing we can do is invest in the quality of education, especially higher education.

In Finland, getting a university degree is the first thing that you expect your kids to do.

I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world.

Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations.

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

Our goal here in New York is to ensure that every child who graduates high school is ready to start a career or start college and to dramatically increase the number of students that graduate from college.

Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain.

I'm very proud of what we've done with the State University and the City University. They're totally different institutions than they were when I took office.

I want my kids to graduate from high school. But that's not enough. I also want them to go to college. Why? Because rich people's kids go to college. And if that's good enough for them, it's good enough for my kids. Because you know what? College graduates don't tend to go to jail as frequently as nongraduates.

Encouragement of higher education for our youth is critical to the success of our collective future.

Education is the silver bullet to improve this Nation's standing worldwide... and our teachers know that.

Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.

We've got a support system that gives our players a wonderful opportunity to graduate. If they go to class and give good effort, they can graduate from this school, and I believe that's important when you go out recruiting.

We must ensure our system of higher education offers world-class quality for a world-class economy.

I look at the kids coming out of Yale. They are so intelligent with their careers. I wish I had that.

College education is the engine of social mobility in this country.

I want to be able to pick up a list of names of graduates from high schools and colleges in the city and to see that that list is longer than it was when I started in 2009.