If we do not provide education for every single American we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.
We need to drive down requirements for the schools. In the 19th century we increased the quality of the schools by higher education saying 'You can't come in unless you have these skills unless you've taken these courses.' We did that in Wisconsin when I was there it helped to transform the secondary school system.
When I was a young musician the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.
Documentaries are the first line of education and the second line of education is dramatization such as 'The Pacific'.
The first duty of government is to see that people have food fuel and clothes. The second that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world.
Field of Dreams is the only movie - and I saw it in the theater - on an afternoon when I was on location somewhere and there were like 12 people in the theater. I was just so devastated I couldn't get out of my seat. And I sat and watched it a second time.
Every comedian dreams of hosting 'The Tonight Show' and for seven months I got to. I did it my way with people I love and I do not regret a second.
I did commit to myself that I would not jump back into being the workaholic that I can be before I gave myself an honest opportunity to create the marriage of my dreams and to create the beginning of the family of my dreams and that took a hot second.
There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams watching them fail and then getting a second chance.
The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
The Final Jeopardy! questions seem to be by design things you can't know. And so it's not about who knows them but who can figure them out in thirty seconds.
Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
From my first dunk at 14 years old to my second NCAA Championship at the University of Tennessee my intense training with my dad was always to credit.
Growing up I didn't give my grandfather's photography a second thought. I wasn't involved in his work except that I helped my dad print his negatives.
My dad remembers being in school with my uncle and the teacher would say outright to the class that the Japanese were second-class citizens and shouldn't be trusted.
My dad came from Cuba when he was a teenager not speaking English. And I grew up here speaking Spanglish. That's the world in which I grew up and that's a world in which a lot of second generation immigrants find themselves.
I feel connected to the Second World War because my father lost his father in that war. So through my dad and the effect it had on him of losing his father young I always felt connected to the war. It goes back years but it still feels to me as if we're completely living in it.
My dad dragged me to a Bruce Springsteen concert as a kid. It was my first concert but I fell asleep in the middle. My second concert was Weezer on the 'Pinkerton' tour and 'Pinkerton' is the reason why I'm doing this.
I once said to my father when I was a boy 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me 'I'll settle for a second.'
I have always thought of Walt Disney as my second father.
Wisdom prudence forethought these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right and leaves the consequences to God.
A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision but believe me after six months' experience he wants first second third and all the time - patience.
Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth let a people loving freedom come to growth.
Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we're doing with their money?