When I was going for my graduate degree I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That's what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film which was 'You're a Big Boy Now.'

I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story.

My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born in Jay County to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize but when the war came she was married had a family so she started teaching.

In the last analysis of course an oath will encourage fidelity in office only to the degree that officeholders continue to believe that they cannot escape ultimate accountability for a breach of faith.

Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.

And to get real work experience you need a job and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree.

Equality is the public recognition effectively expressed in institutions and manners of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.

A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.

I'm not only a lawyer I have a post doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I work in serious scholarship and work in the United States federal tax court. My husband and I raised five kids. We've raised 23 foster children. We've applied ourselves to education reform. We started a charter school for at-risk kids.

I am a firm believer in education and have worked very hard to tell young Latinos that they must go to college and that if possible they should pursue an advanced degree. I am convinced that education is the great equalizer.