What charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility – America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone by bone.

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource – the minds of our children.

Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is ‚to be prepared‘.

Cancer is still a word that strikes fear into people’s hearts, producing a deep sense of powerlessness. But today it is possible to find out through a blood test whether you are highly susceptible to breast and ovarian cancer, and then take action.

My mother is not educated but keeps in touch with world events through news on TV.

Studies have identified a significant ‚skills gap‘ between what students are currently being taught and the skills employers are seeking in today’s global economy. Our children must be better prepared than they are now to meet the future challenges of our ever-changing world.

Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do – and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

It’s silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.

Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there.

As a kid, I got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and no meal.

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

When the party gives me a responsibility, I must do it with complete dedication. God has given me the ability, which I utilise to its optimum.

The whole infrastructure of air travel was, and is, part of government policy. It is not a natural development of a free economic system – at least not in the way that is claimed. The same is true of the roads, of course.

Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn’t for you. It’s for the Presidency.

Many shoulder heavy burdens of righteous responsibility which, on occasion, seem so difficult to bear. I have heard those challenges termed impossible.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

The Revlon Run/Walk effort to focus on women’s cancer has my wholehearted support and gratitude.

Our teachers deserve better feedback.

Never have we stolen the intelligences of other peoples. On the contrary, in Cuba we have trained tens of thousands of doctors and other top-level professionals, for free, in order to send them back to their own countries.

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don’t think anybody has held this job who hasn’t felt personally responsible for those being killed.

I’ve never professed to be anything but an average student.

Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You’re not out of it until the computer says you’re out of it.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

It’s OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, we want to keep setting a very, very high standard. We don’t want them to catch up because we’re slowing down or, even worse, going into reverse.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what’s in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.

I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

We all have the duty to do good.

I grew up in the east side of Detroit in an area where there was very little, except for a lot of scarcity, poverty and hunger. I never woke up saying, ‚I’m an orphan again today, isn’t this terrible? Poor me.‘

The problem is that the U.S. government is the biggest debtor in the world, and those depending on it to take care of them will only become poorer.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

After a century of trying, we declared that healthcare in America is not a privilege for a few, it is a right for everybody. After decades of talk, we finally began to wean ourselves off foreign oil. We doubled our production of clean energy. We brought more of our troops home to their families, and we delivered justice to Osama bin Laden.

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you’d would wake up times and hope that the next day you’d be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

We need an adult in the White House. When making life-or-death, war-or-peace decisions, a president can’t just pop off or lash out irrationally.

Too often we act – ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we’re giving them children who have, you know, they’re not ready to learn. And if they’re not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they’re behind.

For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain’t ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.