I came into the Republican party in 1980, when I was a college student at Georgetown.
Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.
I opened up a frozen-yogurt business out of college. I didn't finish college; I went halfway, and then I worked for Joel Silver, the producer, as a driver for a year.
My dad was a singer in a band and neither of my parents went to college, and I ended up getting into Harvard and was the first person in my family that went to college and it happened to be Harvard.
Middle class families are struggling to send their sons and daughters to school. For many Americans, a college education is essential to future success.
No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education.
If I had spent as much time in the weight room as I did designing football uniforms, I probably would have had a free college education.
People like me who grew up in a working-class town, who don't have a college education, you don't usually hear from us.
College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school.
These ivy league students are in the upper echelon of the college boards and had great opportunity in front of them regardless of where they go to college. Its in their very nature and it is something they expect.
Community colleges are great bargains. They avoid the fancy amenities four-year liberal arts colleges need in order to lure the children of the middle class.
I wanted to find ways for colleges and universities to become involved with public schools to help young people prepare for college.
I kicked college nostalgia in my late 20s. As much as I loved college and treasure the memories, I no longer want to go back.
Every American college student goes to college with a hard drive. They take their laptop. There's not a CD player in sight.
A coach, especially at a college level - much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level - you're more of a teacher than an actual coach.
In 2008, Barack Obama was the electoral equivalent of the Hula Hoop; a political Pet Rock; a craze, a fad, an irrational gadget. The latest have-to-have, must-vote-for candidate.
Democracy is a daring concept - a hope that we'll be best governed if all of us participate in the act of government. It is meant to be a conversation, a place where the intelligence and local knowledge of the electorate sums together to arrive at ac...
Andrew Jackson was the first president to claim that the desires of the public overrode Congress's constitutional prerogatives. Virtually every president since Jackson has claimed the mantle, even while lacking two ingredients of an electoral mandate...
Unsurprisingly, the poll-takers don't talk a lot in public about the ignorance of the electorate on political and public policy matters. And the politicians are not going to disclose the, let's say, limited body of knowledge in their constituencies. ...
America's demographic shift was obvious to everyone in the 2010 Census - but Republicans stubbornly rejected math, facts, and polls to their electoral peril. While Republicans tailored their platform by and for the pale stale and male, among us, Obam...
Young voters are crucial. The trend over recent years has been for them to drift away. So anything that gets young voters interested in the electoral process not only has an immediate effect, but has an effect for years and years.
