Political Quotes

“improving education for all American children is our No. 1 priority in the Senate. It is No. 1 on our Republican plan. Education is more important than ever before in our history. While education has always been the engine of social and economic progress, today it assumes more importance than ever before. Education is critical to allow people to fully participate in our increasingly technological society. Education is critical to narrowing the gap between the rich and the poor in this country, which is largely an educational gap. In fact, an individual with a college degree can expect to earn, on average, $17,000 more a year than an individual who only has a high school degree. Increasingly, education is important not only to our quality of life, not only to technological and medical breakthroughs, but to narrowing the gaps in our society and ensuring that everyone is able to have the quality of life he or she wishes to have. By working with our parents, our teachers, our communities, and our States, our goal is to strengthen our schools so that every American child has the opportunity for a good education, so that no child, in the words of Texas Governor George Bush, is left behind. That is our goal. A good education is a ladder of opportunity. It turns dreams into reality, it is responsible for improvements in our quality of life, and it enables a child to achieve his or her full potential.”