Higher education is one of few areas where this country competes with the rest of the world and wins. The best of American higher education outstrips any in the world. Look where the rest of the world goes for higher education for graduate degrees. They come here.

I made education the highest priority of my campaign - actually education and jobs - and the reason is a simple one: I think the future of America depends on it.

Americans are a decade behind Canada when it comes to sex education and understanding their bodies.

I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream for the environment for privacy rights a woman's right to choose a good public education system.

America's growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment education productivity innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn't seem to have anything to do with America's growth rate is a brutal work schedule.

The American education system couldn't be more badly directed or poorly funded if the Secretary of Education were Ed Wood.

As we develop and get quicker with technology in America it's like we're downgrading if you look at the investment in education... that's the thing that worries me.

There are five issues that make a fist of a hand that can knock America out cold. They're lack of jobs obesity diabetes homelessness and lack of good education.

I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education.

I think that anybody that stays in school gets good grades pays the price I think we are wealthy enough in the public and the private sector in America to make sure that every child in America that wants to continue their education they should be able to do that.