I'm not only a lawyer I have a post doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I work in serious scholarship and work in the United States federal tax court. My husband and I raised five kids. We've raised 23 foster children. We've applied ourselves to education reform. We started a charter school for at-risk kids.

I thought if anyone need a leg up it was our foster children. So I started getting involved in education reform and that was back in 1998. And as a result of all the reform work that I had done people urged me to run for the Minnesota state Senate. I did I was there for six years.

With my ministry of light part of what I do is work on the California Alliance For Arts Education.

I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools.

I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.

If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education which enables a better life for women.

One of the biggest development issues in the world is the education of girls. In the United States and Europe it has been accepted but not in Africa and the developing countries.

If you can feed your family give them an education then you are a success.

Only time education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.

This is not a zero-sum game. We know that if we provide access and education particularly where there are gaps in the market we will create more jobs we will create more growth and we will create more activity in the U.S. market which will be good for our economy.

Too many vital education dollars that should be spent in the classroom are bouncing around in the federal bureaucracy.

I've got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks it's what children bring into school with them.

Few things are more important to each individual's future success or to our nation's prosperity than education.

But the best thing Washington can do for education is realize that our role is limited. Washington must keep its promises but let those who know our childrens' names- parents teachers and school board members- make education decisions.

As a Member of Congress I've continued my family's tradition of focusing on education.

Today there are people trying to take away rights that our mothers grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought for: our right to vote our right to choose affordable quality education equal pay access to health care. We the people can't let that happen.

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.

All around as a person on right decisions on holding your money on doing your trade a good education is a must. I don't think I would've done as good without an education.

Session musicians kind of respected me because what I was talking about made sense. That all came from an education. Believe me education does you more good. Maybe that's the reason I've been around so long.

I cherish the creation of public space and services especially health housing and the comprehensive education system which dared to give so many of us ideas 'above our station.'

My education and background thoroughly inform my writing.

During this period at the Department of Education my working relationship with Judge Thomas was positive.

I only had a high school education and believe me I had to cheat to get that.

This journey is not over. Our education initiatives have so much momentum and we're committed to sharing even more stories from the Arctic when we return.