With my support, the House of Representatives recently voted to permanently repeal the death tax so that family farms and businesses can be passed down to children and grandchildren.
I'm a farm boy. If we need five people to haul in hay, we don't take one and just work them to death.
My constituents in Kansas know the death tax is a duplicative tax on small businesses and family farms that, in many cases, families have spent generations building.
So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
Teachers say their schools of education did not adequately prepare them for the classroom. They would have welcomed more mentoring and feedback in their early years.
Education is important because, first of all, people need to know that discrimination still exists. It is still real in the workplace, and we should not take that for granted.
Hard work and a good education will take you further than any government program.
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.
We must ensure our system of higher education offers world-class quality for a world-class economy.
I'm a proponent of single-payer health-care, public education, protecting the environment - all the things Democrats rally around.
I do not see any reason why they should not be given the means to give their teachers just as high an education as is secured by attendance at the Protestant schools.
As education and employment secretary in 1997, I inherited hundreds of schools where the roofs leaked, the windows rattled, and they relied entirely on outside toilets.
I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.
Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they - not someone else - must take responsibility to assure that their children are well educated.
We do recognise the need to move towards the publication of information showing the progress made by pupils from one stage of their education to another.
Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.
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.
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.
In Congress, I'll work hard to encourage investment in education, particularly with respect to technology and bridging the digital divide.
The rising costs of higher education coupled with the stress of paying student loans are putting increasing pressure on students.
Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
