Education exposes young people to a broader world, a world full of opportunity and hope.

One of the most powerful tools for empowering individuals and communities is making certain that any individual who wants to receive a quality education can do so.

If we want unity, we must all be unifiers. If we want accountability, each of us must be accountable for all we do.

We may disagree on some things, but we can do so without being disagreeable.

It is up to us to live up to the legacy that was left for us, and to leave a legacy that is worthy of our children and of future generations.

I want to work on respecting individuals' dignity. Equal rights, that's where my heart is. That means equal rights and benefits, and that's what we need.

Education is the foundation upon which we build our future.

Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers.

We can leave our legacy only if we are willing to change - to go beyond partisan labels, and to solve the problems facing Washingtonians.

We need to take advantage of the opportunity we have now to create a vision and become great.

I will never be able to create a budget from scratch with the amount of time that I have, but my instructions remain the same: Give me a budget that has no new revenue.

I know he sees it, because for the briefest moment he drops his expressionless mask and the look in his eyes shows me he feels the same way. A mirror of every part of myself I can't bear to face.

Justice without mercy is tyranny

She said all a body would have to do there [Heaven] was to go around all day long with a harp and sing, forever and ever.

....I wondered if there had been a more corroding and devastating attack upon the personalities of men than the idea of racial discrimination.

That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing.

Gratitude incorporates both the heart and mind, and instantly paves the shortest road to happiness.

I find that break-ups are so much easier when you can hate the person.

Qualities absolutely necessary for a historian: (1) Imagination. (2) Prejudice. (3) The power of writing your own biography at the same time.

Today's 'best practices' lead to dead ends; the best paths are new and untried.

To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.