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I believe education is the great equalizer.

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.

Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.

My focus is mainly on education. I believe education made all the difference for me, and it is certainly going to make all the difference for other children, too.

A big part of my life is music education because it changed my life - but arts, academics and athletics should all be equally treated in the school.

I am a firm believer in education and have worked very hard to tell young Latinos that they must go to college and that, if possible, they should pursue an advanced degree. I am convinced that education is the great equalizer.

Education equals choices. I have been blessed with the choice to be anything I ever wanted to be, and I truly owe my happiness to my family and education.

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.

I like to balance competing with studying. It's hard work at the moment, but it could be worse.

We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.