We have to have good, decent education not just for these children but for adults throughout their lives so they can always get new jobs.

Because everybody who works hard, everybody who learns well, everyone who lives by the values that are cherished in this parish has a chance to be rewarded.

We must guarantee our workers the training and education they need to compete in the global marketplace.

We have to provide the education and training our people need, not just for our children but for our adults, too.

As former Governors who spent years trying to improve our States' education systems, Secretary Riley and I are committed to an Education Department that is responsive to the needs of States and communities.

Perhaps more than any person who ever sought this job, I spent my apprenticeship in the schools of my State, in the schools of this country, listening to teachers talking with children.

Literacy is not a luxury. It is a right and a responsibility.

We believe that childhood immunization, Head Start, Jobs Corps, School-to-Work and, especially, Goals 2000 are high-priority programs that merit additional funding.

We're at a moment in our history when we have to increase the educational ability of all Americans.

This administration is working hard to open the doors of college education to all young people.

You may be on this mission creating thousands of scientists for the future just by the power of your example and by this direct communication.

The education programs work, the prevention programs work, but it needs to be more than rhetoric.

Every American should have the opportunity for a first-class education.

Learning and teaching is a lifelong enterprise.

The fellowship includes an education program that parallels and broadens the unique experience of working at the highest levels of the Federal Government.

By the year 2000, every American child will start school healthy and ready to learn.

Learning begins at home, whether the subject is math or science or literature or civic virtue.

America needs to revise, we say renew actually, renew its thinking about public education.