Barack Obama Quotes

Community colleges provide higher education where people live, helping to build strong ladders of opportunity that allow people to secure a foothold in the middle class.

In America today, a young person needs more education after high school just to have a chance to make it in the middle class. Not a guarantee, just a chance to make it.

The best escalator to opportunity in America is education.

… adult education should be made available … so that our less privileged groups may be able to avail themselves of new openings which require more education than they possess.

Education is the great equalizer of our time. It gives hope to the hopeless and creates chances for those without.

Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers.

I am running for president to help create a better future. A future where everyone who wants a job can find one. Where no senior fears for the security of their retirement. An America where every parent knows that their child will get an education that leads them to a good job and a bright horizon.

High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.

I care about education for everyone, not just the elite.

I believe that it is higher education's purpose and calling to keep open the door to the American dream.

We know what works. What works are the very opportunities that advantaged families provide for their children.

America is the land of opportunity. We need to be vigilant in ensuring that each and every American has the opportunity to acquire the skills to compete and to see those skills rewarded in the marketplace.

The more that everyone has access to the same educational opportunities, the more society will tend to accept some receiving disproportionate rewards. After all, they themselves have a chance to be winners.

I wanted more people from my city to be able to have the kind of opportunity that I had.

In our democracy every young person should have an equal opportunity to obtain a higher education, regardless of his station in life or financial means.

In Britain, the idea one could go from blue-collar beginnings to the university was so far out, it was quite unthinkable. I took a variety of jobs to pay for tuition - from ice-cream salesman to night-club bouncer. Whatever earned the most money in the least time.

Education is the only way forward in Latin America and developing countries in general.

There is no greater ladder into the middle class than education.

I expect if you are going to come out of the shadows, then you're going to want to have some type of hope in the future that you're going to improve your life and, yes, accomplish that American Dream.

Parikrma aims to give underprivileged children an equal chance at education so they can integrate with kids of private schools and, later, with the society. I want these children to hold high-end jobs at multinational companies and not work at the lower end of the spectrum.

Everybody in this country who wants to should be able to get as much education as they want. Education is the best resource we have.

They made it to the middle class, my dad working as a bartender and my mother as a cashier and a maid. I didn't inherit any money from them. But I inherited something far better - the real opportunity to accomplish my dreams.

Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children could have access to educational opportunities to make something of themselves in adulthood.

Further Education should be about the ability to learn, not the ability to pay - everyone who is able should have the opportunity, regardless of their family background. I don't want to see students struggling with huge debts or frightened off even going to university in the first place.

Education is the investment our generation makes in the future.