I suppose the White House thinks it's doing what Big Business wants, but it will lead to vastly increased taxes, because all these guest workers are to be allowed to bring their children.

I think good teachers are underpaid.

The problem with K-12 education is socialism and the solution is capitalism.

Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses' interests, not the members.

Hey, nothing grows to the sky. There will be a successor movement. Right now its nascent.

I think the Republicans are subverted by the fact that so many of their leaders send their kids to private schools, they don't really have the stomach for the fight.

Theres no particular relationship between spending and educational results. Most education spending is actually on salaries, and thats allocated according to political muscle.

I've been a financial journalist for 30 years.

I think we spend too much on K-12 education a.k.a. teachers' salaries. It's the only industry where you never see any productivity increases.

Why can't teachers end up owning schools, the way waiters can open their own restaurants?

I regard many of the neoconservatives as personal friends, but that's not stopped them from behaving with extraordinary viciousness towards those of us who raised the immigration issue.

I was always performing, doing silly voices. The teachers realized I could go one of two ways: be creative or destructive.

And to learn, you have to be willing to push yourself.

Quality requires your Presence.

As our mother-earth is a mere speck in the sunbeam in the illimitable universe, so man himself is but a tiny grain of protoplasm in the perishable framework of organic nature.

When politics promote hate, it becomes a rule, and populist provocation becomes standard. It has been the same throughout the entire history of humanity.

We must always live in hope; without that consolation there would be no living.

Women are born free, and I think that they should stay that way.

A faithful person is revealed by those who hate him or her. Are you hated for your faith or ethics? If nobody hates you, maybe you have not displayed Christ openly enough.

I love acting. But I love being a mother. To be a full mother and a full person, you have to do what you love, and that's acting. But I like the best of both worlds.

Any time you get a chance to play a great role, I consider all the qualities I may or may not have attributed to that character and how I would fit into the story.