I want a president who will teach our children that everyone in this country matters, a president who truly believes in the vision that our Founders put forth all those years ago that we are all created equal, each a beloved part of the great American story.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

Through every victory and every setback, I’ve insisted that change is never easy and never quick; that we wouldn’t meet all of our challenges in one term, or one presidency, or even in one lifetime.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.

I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system.

Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home.

As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

Girls shouldn’t worry about being the equal of men in the business world.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

I love diversity.

My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.

I didn’t go to university. Didn’t even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

It’s always going to be a fight for anyone who isn’t an older white man. I want to fight for anyone who doesn’t have a fight.

Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world.

‚Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

I still learn, but I think it’s the best thing in life to have a kid.

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

Children make your life important.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it – oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

A mission statement is not something you write overnight… But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.

I didn’t get trained by the school system like other kids, and when I did concentrate on learning, my mind was cluttered and locked by the programming of the system.

What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.

The United States, to state the obvious, is greatly concerned by the startling number of unaccompanied minors that – children and teenagers who are making a very perilous journey through Central America to reach the United States.

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

I need physics more than friends.

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

I did my utmost to ensure that everyone below me in the chain of command felt comfortable approaching me with concerns, ideas, thoughts, and even disagreements.

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

I’d go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

If segregationists had their way, I would not be a member of the United States Senate today, I would not be a top contender to be president of the United States.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.

Our diversity is our strength. What a dull and pointless life it would be if everyone was the same.

Libraries raised me.

I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I – if I’m not interested in something, I don’t grasp it.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

There were the questions of what kind of First Lady I would be, what issues would I focus on. Those were the questions that were being pounded on me through the campaign. A lot of times, I wondered what in the world Barack was even getting us into.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill an emu, acted out in song or dance, or that Uncle George was eaten by a croc over there, don’t go there to swim, then those young people don’t have to find out by trial and error.

All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.

There is a ‚sanctity‘ involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.