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No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

No economy can succeed without a high-quality workforce, particularly in an age of globalization and technical change.

If we're not creating an educated and skilled workforce, there is just no conceivable way that were going to be economically competitive.

Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.

We need no elaborate statistical proof that trade depends on prosperity in the industrial countries.

As the economy improves, there aren't as many opportunities.

We know from hard research that educated populations have lower growth rates, are more peaceful, and add to the global economy.

Without investment there will not be growth, and without growth there will not be employment.

There is no pure free-market economy.

One cannot have economic growth without security.