“Education, in K-12, technical college and universities needs to be a t...” — Tom Barrett Quote

Education, in K-12, technical college and universities needs to be a top priority in Wisconsin.

With the increased cost of gasoline, it doesn't appear that we're going to see a slowing of interest in mass transit. I think it's going to continue to grow.

I'm not going to be the rock star of the far right and frankly on the rock star of the far left.

I'm pleased to have the support of working men and women throughout the state of Wisconsin. And I found in the primary I did. Now the key is to get that turnout activated. And we know we can do that. Again, the temperature here is very, very high on both sides of the aisle.

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.

This is a value-added college education if I have heard one described. And what is the most remarkable about Delaware State University graduates - is they just keeping giving back.

After I won Miss America, I called my dad, who had four kids in college, to say he no longer had to pay for Stanford.

In college, you learn how to learn. Four years is not too much time to spend at that.

Going to college was really affirming for me, meeting other people like me, other mixed people who had mixed life experience. And that's when I really understood that, no matter what my upbringing was, I'm black and people are going to treat me like I'm black. So that is what that is.