Even in a time of fiscal austerity education is more than just an expense.

Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care education and incarceration expenses.

My father is a real idealist and he's all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growing up it was just a resounding 'No.' But if I asked for a saxophone one would appear and next day and I'd be signed up for lessons. So anything to do with education or learning my father would spare no expense.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford he should be carried forward at the public expense.

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world and ten to one but she has the means of settling well without further expense to anybody.

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.

My dad worked several jobs to pay for my expense in skating.

Romney is right that the Obama vision is too centered on government. But his is too centered on the promotion of business and wealth creation at the expense of everything else.

Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case it is usually at the expense of others. In other words it is the opposite of idealism.

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger the cost of hatred the waste of spirits.

Liberal that I am I support health-care reform on its merits alone. My liberal blood boils for example when I read that half of the personal bankruptcies in this country are brought on in part by medical expenses.

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.