In our post-9/11 world our Nation's military deserves at least the same access to institutions of higher education that any other major employer might enjoy.

There is still a lot of misinformation being spread about higher education funding arrangements under the new Act. The students page on my website sets out the main points in the Act.

Poorer students take out larger loans and will have to contribute more to the cost of higher education.

In my home State of Louisiana several institutions of higher education have been impacted by both Hurricanes Katrina and Rita literally dozens across the entire State.

One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.

Higher education is one of few areas where this country competes with the rest of the world and wins. The best of American higher education outstrips any in the world. Look where the rest of the world goes for higher education for graduate degrees. They come here.

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.

You go to Scandinavia and you will find that people have a much higher standard of living in terms of education health care and decent paying jobs.

When a woman earns a dollar the payback is higher. She'll invest in her children in their education health care and basic needs. The impact of a woman's role in the economy benefits society at large.

For wide swaths of training and education there are valuable spillovers which mean that the private sector needs support from the government. That is why I have been so determined to protect and grow apprenticeships and put higher education on a sustainable footing.

Now the main areas of higher education that still enjoy considerable financial support from government are subjects like engineering and science and the research ringfence which is the basic minimum to protect Britain's scientific competitiveness.

With Michigan's economic future on the line we can't afford to have our 500 local school districts marching in different directions. Instead we need a high standards mandatory curriculum to get all our students on the road to higher education and a good paying job.

Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations.

Poor people people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.

For-profit higher education is today a booming industry feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.

Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students' math and language skills and improve test scores which in turn increase chances of higher education and good jobs in the future.

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

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.

Dream small dreams. If you make them too big you get overwhelmed and you don't do anything. If you make small goals and accomplish them it gives you the confidence to go on to higher goals.

But alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?

What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.

Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.

Success is like death. The more successful you become the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get.