Quotes About Opportunity

Economic prosperity and quality education for our children are inexorably linked.

Access to a quality education in our country is a civil right for all Americans young and old. But to ensure it for scores of our fellow Americans, we must rethink education.

There are fewer people living in tents, more people with access to quality health care, more kids who are in school, and for the first time in a long, long time, Haiti is attracting private sector investments.

The right of all of our citizens to enjoy fair and equal access to housing opportunities is guaranteed by our laws. The U.S. Department of Justice is committed to fiercely protecting those rights in order to ensure the quality of life all Americans deserve.

What's popular in places considered ghettos - whether that's the inner city or Appalachia - is having a decent quality of life.

I've seen a lot of poverty - coming up as a young child, lost hopes and dreams and people that never had a chance to have a decent quality of life. I believe we can do a lot greater than that.

We have to have an economy that is strong for everyone, working families who believe they can get ahead and give the children a better quality of life.

I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.

Look, I have no qualms about having played basketball. The game has done so much for me. Look at the places I've been, for one thing.

I don't have any qualms about selling out.

I have no qualms approaching directors who I know will help me grow as an actor.

Basketball in Latin America is growing a lot and it's being seen with the quantity of players in the NBA.

Quotas are often about quantity and not quality. I think people should get jobs because they are qualified and they can prove they are good at the job.

The quality and quantum of potential investors in Africa is huge.

After 'Quantum Leap,' a lot of sci-fi things came my way, and I had to say, 'I can't do that right now.'

Anyone that makes me a quarter of a billion dollars, I like.

Everyone wants to play in the fourth quarter, everyone wants to close the game. It's the most important time of the game, so being out there is great.

I had all kinds of different quarterbacks. But we never drafted a first-rounder.

Third-string quarterbacks, fourth-string quarterbacks - they get their opportunities, and they shine.

I definitely would embrace that opportunity to be the No. 1 overall pick, obviously that every quarterback would love to be that. It's no different for me.

And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks, and I don't think I could have made it in basketball, because I was only 5' 11". So I just picked baseball.

My mindset is I'm a quarterback. But I love being on the field.

You never really know about a quarterback until he plays in a real game.

It's always a lot more fun as a quarterback if you can do things you don't normally get to do. So if I can catch a pass and make a play for the team, that's what I'm willing to do.