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 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 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.

If you can’t save your own life, is it even worth saving?

What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.

Some of us will be long forgotten before we are even dead. Most will never be remembered at all, not even by family.

Italy and London are the only places where I don't feel to exist on sufferance.

Reverence for the Supreme Being, based upon His supposed resemblance to man. The pig is taught by sermons and epistles / To think the God of Swine has snout and bristles.

I'm not a big proponent of happiness. I think it's highly overrated. I think misery is underrated. There's so much value in that. You can't have one without the other.

That's the trouble with honorable mentions: they let everyone know you applied and didn't win.

I believe love is what makes the world go round. No matter how old or young, love is why we are here. It is the very essence of one's being.

Not having children makes less work-but it makes a quiet house.

The Cuban people have an amazingly strong and unbroken spirit.