This is a very much better country because of that Brown decision, and it is a very different country because of the Brown decision.

We insist, with Goals 2000, that every student can learn.

These individuals will bring to the Federal Government and the Education Department a wealth of experience in education and public service.

It can be a time of new beginnings—used to pursue a second career, to gain more education, or to engage in volunteer work that makes our neighborhoods, communities, and the world a better place in which to live.

I call upon individual Americans, representatives of government at all levels, businesses, and community, volunteer, and educational groups to work to increase opportunities for older Americans and to adopt healthier lifestyles.

Transcript of a press briefing by Education Secretary Richard Riley and Labor Secretary Robert Reich on the School-to-Work Opportunities Act

We would all be not only less well educated but, in a fundamental sense, less human than we ought to be were it not for the opportunity to spend time in places like the National Gallery.

The School-to-Work Opportunities Act can help young people adapt to this changing world.

We are living in a world where what you earn is a function of what you can learn.

The School-to-Work Opportunities Act of 1994 will help change that.

Americans have the right to know that when their child goes to school, the other children are packing books, not guns.

I have probably spent more time in more different kinds of classrooms than any person who has had the privilege to hold this office.

This is a place that says 'when': When you work, when you learn, you can do.

We're pushing Congress hard to pass a safe schools act, to reduce violence in our schools.

Her foreign affairs experience and educational background will be a great asset to the Agency for International Development.

Education has propelled our economy, strengthened our democracy, and created our great American middle class.

Walter and Leonore Annenberg have done a remarkable and truly wonderful thing on this day in giving the largest private gift in American history to the future of America's children.

Personal security means, among other things, that people who are out there struggling in this country to work for a living and raise their kids should be safe on the streets and should have access to health care and should have access to a decent education for the course of their lifetimes.