“Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an inves...” — Ed Markey Quote

“Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.”

“Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language.”

“In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre.”

“That's the premise of the Saudi Arabians. He's holding the president's hand with one. In the other hand, he's got his hand in the pocket of American consumers.”

“Well, as you know, General Motors does not make hybrids. Ford only made 4,000 hybrids last year.”

“Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.”

“In my day we didn't have sex education, we just picked up what we could off the television.”

“One of the favorite conservative themes is that the cure for poverty is more marriage and earlier marriage. We hear that all the time; there have been billions of dollars now, between the Bush administration and the Obama administration, which has continued the marriage education program, on trying to get more people to get married.”

“Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.”

“A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.”

“One of the most frustrating things is to see a country in which you had elections, the elections were a success, but then you have to say to people nothing can be improved in the next few months, even in the next few years, in infrastructure, in water, in sanitation, in health, in education, in jobs.”