I want to make sure more of our students can afford to go to those colleges and universities.

We can't allow higher education to be a luxury in this country.

I believe that's the right thing to do, for us to make sure to send a message to our young people: You graduate from high school at a minimum.

These regulations are necessary to prevent the inflation of the academic credits attributed to postsecondary education courses.

You can see your streets safer, your schools doing better by our children, our businesses growing faster, and our communities growing stronger because of the work that you do each and every day.

We need more engineers.

I want my daughters to see the shackles that bound slaves on their voyage across the ocean.

College is the single most important investment you can make in your future.

I believe that the principle of being a merit society, where education, hard work, risk taking, have lifted certain individual, is what's going on today.

It's a vision that says, maybe I never had a chance to get a good education, but I want my daughter to go to college.

The National School Lunch Program has been a central part of our Nation's commitment to healthy children since its inception in 1946.

Good nutrition at school is an investment in our children's futures.

The need to put teachers back to work in the case of -- which will be the focus of his remarks in Dallas -- the need to put construction workers back to work.

It is a well-rounded education for our children that will fuel our efforts to lead in a new economy where critical and creative thinking will be the keys to success.

I think most Americans believe that we’ve got to invest in making sure we've got the best education system possible; that we’ve got to invest in basic research.

Your first obligation is to do well in school.

I want you to think of this time as one in which you are just loading up with information and skills.

There's no reason why we can't make sure that we have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world.