Erskine Bowles Hard Quotations

Nobody thought we could balance the federal budget, ... I found that if I just listened hard enough, I could find some common ground.

In today's knowledge-based global economy, we're competing head-to-head with China, India and dozens of other countries that are making tremendous strategic investments in education and research. The cold hard fact is that if we don't get more of our own people better educated, we're in a losing fight, a fight that if we shape up, we can still win and win big.