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The amount of money we spend on education is important, but not nearly as important as how the money is spent.

Public education is an investment in our future.

Economic growth can enable development if it is supplemented by public policies that encourage circulation of wealth, especially into crucial areas such as public healthcare and education.

Public education is our greatest pathway to opportunity in America. So we need to invest in and strengthen our public universities today, and for generations to come.

When we set up our kids for failure, we set up our workforce for failure, and we set up our economy for failure. I can't emphasize enough the importance, the absolute importance, of education in achieving long-term economic growth.

We have lots of evidence that putting investments in early childhood education, even evidence from very hard-nosed economists, is one of the very best investments that the society can possibly make. And yet we still don't have public support for things like preschools.

A great economy requires great public schools.

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.

Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled.

Providing great schooling is the single most important thing we can do to help any child from a disadvantaged background succeed. It's also the single most important thing we can do to boost the long-term productivity of our economy.