Campbell Brown - The government sets targets for increased four-year high school graduation rates as part of its agenda for improving Americans' health.

Clint Smith - School desegregation is associated with higher graduation rates, greater employability, higher earnings, and decreased rates of incarceration.

Tony Cardenas - Truancy rates are directly correlated to low graduation rates.

Ben Bernanke - High levels of homeownership have been shown to foster greater involvement in school and civic organizations, higher graduation rates, and greater neighborhood stability.

Mack Brown - All of us have to win games. Whether we like it or not, the graduation rates and all the things people are talking about aren't as important as winning.

Ruben Hinojosa - While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform, I believe that we must focus on graduation as the key accountability measure.

John Sununu - For most Americans, Friday afternoons are filled with positive anticipation of the weekend. In Washington, it’s where government officials dump stories they want to bury.

Jacques Yves Cousteau - The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.

Gene Roddenberry - The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.

Corrie Ten Boom - Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

Charles Spurgeon - Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

Adam Smith - Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.

Emma Watson - It is time that we all see gender as a spectrum instead of two sets of opposing ideals.

Paul Lewis-"A father’s words are like a thermostat that sets the temperature in the house.”

Aldous Huxley - There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Sophie Swetchine - Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.