One of the critical issues that we have to confront is illegal immigration, because this is a multi-headed Hydra that affects our economy, our health care, our health care, our education systems, our national security, and also our local criminality.

Reforming public education, cutting property taxes, fixing adult and child protective services and funding our budget can all occur when Democrats and Republicans engage in consensus and cooperation - not cynicism and combat.

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

Life must be a constant education one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

We must promote upward mobility, starting with solutions that speak to our broken education system, broken immigration policy, and broken safety-net programs that foster dependency instead of helping people get back on their feet.

It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us.

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.