Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
As an immigrant, I have lived, in a way, the American dream, and I want to make sure that opportunity is available for everybody.
Broad access to opportunity is the key to a truly equitable America. No matter who you are or where you grew up, Black Faces in White Places provides a blueprint to seizing opportunities at hand - and expanding opportunity for your entire community.
If you don't speak English, then there is no way you can take full advantage of the opportunities that modern Britain has to offer you.
Success in business today requires real-time, mobile access to business opportunities.
What we have done though is consistently looked for additional opportunities to get stuff done. Wherever we see a possibility of increasing wages, creating more jobs, making sure that more people are able to access opportunity, we're gonna seize it.
What I have been talking about for many years is opportunity conservatism, that every policy should focus like a laser on easing the means of ascent up the economic ladder.
Outside the EU, studying abroad will become the reserve of the wealthy. Inside the EU, it's an opportunity available to almost everyone.
The core concept of Samasource is essentially that technology helps us unlock human talent wherever it may happen to reside. That we should no longer be victims of the birth lottery. That no one should be stuck in a poor place where they don't have a job simply because of an accident of birth.
As technology changes the way we communicate, connect, create, consume and innovate, it is democratizing access to opportunity. Education is no exception.
What women need are not benefits and advantages but a merit-based selection process that will allow them to automatically benefit from various opportunities.
I was lucky enough to be exposed to film, art, literature, culture, and then told, 'Yes, you can do that, too.' It's not something that everybody's circumstances allow for.
Pell Grants aren't 'welfare,' they are a gateway to opportunity for some of our nation's best and brightest students.
If you grew up in a lower-income community, or less well-off, the belief is that the way to change that circumstance is through education.
Especially in the realm of bringing an opportunity to do something creative to people, as I said, who wouldn't ordinarily have that opportunity. I think that's very important.
Year Up for me is a year in which the young adults that we serve have an opportunity to move up in their lives and gain the access and opportunity they need to realize their potential.
