I definitely had a top-notch education.

I hope I've been able to show other young girls that as long as you work hard and you're committed to fight for your education, that anything's possible.

Latinos care about education, yes, so we need reform, not just money.

I think an education is beneficial, but whether it takes an education to be successful in the arts is a whole other question.

My father was an autodidact. It wasn't a middle-class house. Shopkeepers are aspirant. He paid for me to go to private school. He was denied an education - he had a horrible childhood. He got a place at a grammar school and wasn't allowed to go.

You see, some non-Catholic friends of mine have questioned the depth of my faith because of the fact that I have a good education.

You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth.

Poverty does not cause violence and terrorism. Lack of education does not cause terrorism.

You look at public education system, charter schools, infrastructure, in so many ways New Orleans has come back stronger.

I came up poor. My mother only had a fourth-grade education. My dad didn't have any education at all. But they were very structured. They worked hard. You know, they didn't complain. They didn't murmur. And they believe in the Christ.