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The connection between education and a healthy economy is critical. -- Ted Strickland
In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything. -- William J. Clinton
Through hard work and education, we can deliver a strong economy and opportunity for all. -- Julia Gillard
Because education is the backbone of a competitive workforce and successful economy, making it a priority is not uncommon. -- Mike Easley
The smartest thing we can do to create high-wage jobs and grow our economy is to keep our focus on education. -- Bill Richardson
If you want to thrive in today's economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financial education necessary to succeed. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Education, doing homework, is the way to lift up girls. Around the world, where girls are educated, the economy and the standard of living rise. -- Karen DeCrow
The foundation of a strong economy and job creation begins with providing every child in America with the best possible education, including students with disabilities. -- Jared Polis
We've got a lot of work to do: not only on education, but on the economy, on our tax code, and on reducing our crushing debt. -- Michael Bennet
Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy. -- Bill Gates
No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy. -- Brad Henry
Accounting for the unpaid care economy can drive progressive policies such as paid family leave, social security credits for early childcare, tax credits, and quality early childhood education. -- Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Over the long term, the only way we're going to raise wages, grow the economy, and improve American competitiveness is by investing in our people - especially their educations. -- Robert Reich
When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life. -- Jack Miller
People were concerned about national security, and that precluded us from having the opportunity to break through on the issues that we cared most about - the economy, education and health care. -- Tom Daschle
States have the responsibility to create rules and conditions for growth and development, and to channel the benefits to all citizens by providing education and making people able to participate in the economies, and in decision-making. -- Anna Lindh
The United States should pursue a more robust agenda for U.S. competitiveness and innovation focused on a lower-carbon economy, including investments in education, basic research and development, infrastructure, retraining, retirement security, and universal health care. -- Mona Sutphen
Illegal immigration is crisis for our country. It is an open door for drugs, criminals, and potential terrorists to enter our country. It is straining our economy, adding costs to our judicial, healthcare, and education systems. -- Timothy Murphy
To have a stable economy, to have a stable democracy, and to have a modern government is not enough. We have to build new pillars of development. Education, science and technology, innovation and entrepreneurship, and more equality. -- Sebastian Pinera
I think the most important issue for all of us is our economy and jobs and creating opportunities for young people to be able to get the education that you need to be able to afford to go to college. -- Debbie Stabenow
A dynamic economy begins with a good education. -- Bob Taft
Of course their [Cuba's] economy is terrible, but they have Health Care and education. -- Bernie Sanders
We must ensure our system of higher education offers world-class quality for a world-class economy. -- Bob Taft
Because education is the backbone of a competitive workforce and successful economy, making it a priority is not uncommon. -- Mike Easley
Immigration is not the top issue for Latinos. Latinos are like every other American - economy, jobs, healthcare, education. -- Eva Longoria
The very concept of universal formal education is a product (and a relatively late product) of the capitalist world-economy. -- Immanuel Wallerstein
Gay marriage is a complete red herring to distract everyone from the economy and the war and health care and education. -- David O. Russell
Most Hispanics are concerned with the same issues other Americans are - the economy, jobs, education. Similar to Main Street America. -- Henry Bonilla
There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people. -- Toni Morrison
Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry. -- Margaret Spellings
There may be frugality which is not economy. A community, that withholds the means of education from its children, withholds the bread of life and starves their souls. -- Horace Mann
Of all the public services, education is the one I'm most interested in. You get a more dynamic economy, you deal with most social problems, and it's morally right. -- George Osborne
There are four headwinds that are just hitting the American economy in the face: They're demographics, education, debt and inequality, [and] they're powerful enough to cut growth in half. -- Robert J. Gordon
When making choices, or setting policies about the economy, education or medicine, society is best served by electing people who are particularly hardworking, intelligent and interested in long-term thinking. -- Bill Gates

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