Every math curriculum in the world is based on the idea of hand-calculating, and most of what you're teaching is how to calculate. And I think the resistance to this is very variable.

I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards.

We did not go to war in Afghanistan or in Iraq to, quote, 'impose democracy.' We went to war in both places because we saw those regimes as a threat to the United States.

Iraq has no history of ethnic conflict.

For the private sector to flourish, special privilege must give way to equal opportunity and equal risk for all.

I wish there were somebody I could be comfortable voting for. I might have to vote for Hillary Clinton, even though I have big reservations about her.

That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views.

Sometimes corruption is slowed by shedding light into what was previously shadowed.

The American people are pretty impressive in their ability to keep after something if they think it is doable.

I think all foreigners should stop interfering in the internal affairs of Iraq. Those who want to come and help are welcome. Those who come to interfere and destroy are not.

History is just littered with problems that were solved that were supposed to be impossible.

You have to make sacrifices for the things you believe in. If you don’t, what’s the point in believing in anything?

I had a dream I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep.

Doesn't matter how menial may be the job that you're doing today. If you have dreams, that will turn into something positive in the future.

For we direct, perform and witness performances every night – theatre cannot die before the last dream has been dreamt.

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

I came from a family of Marines into the family of Marines.

Actually, I'm getting one made up with eight necks and I'm going to get a wheelwright to make a big rim around it and then I can do cartwheels off the stage.

Donald Trump defies gravity. And so I guess he has to be Donald Trump. It's gotten him so far.

India is a youthful nation. Can't we think of exporting good teachers?

The Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of Goodness and Love.