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We must make children and families a national priority.

Ensuring all kids have access to an effective, talented teacher needs to be a national priority.

The top priority is leaving no child behind. We want accountability in the system, and we want schools to recognize they have a responsibility to teach students.

In a time of tight budgets, difficult choices have to be made. We must make sure our very limited resources are spent on priorities. I believe we should have no higher priority than investing in our children's classrooms and in their future.

Our first priority is our kids.

We need to prepare our kids for a 21st Century economy, and we're not doing it with our 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.

More than anything, we must do better for our children's education.

The most important thing we stressed is that we want those kids to be productive citizens.

It is difficult to think of anything more important than providing the best education possible for our children. They will develop the next technologies, medical cures, and global industries, while mitigating their unintended effects, or they will fail to do these things and consign us all to oblivion.