I think people don't talk enough about education and what we need to do in our public education system.

We've lost our competitive spirit. We've become so obsessed with making kids feel good about themselves that we've lost sight of building the skills they need to actually be good at things.

That should be the goal, is that every kid in every neighborhood, despite whatever challenges they may face, are getting a great education in our public schools.

I think that one thing that people are missing is that we are never going to be able to fix this country's [American] economy in the long run until we fix our public education system.

Creativity is good and whatever. But if the children don't know how to read, I don't care how creative you are. You're not doing your job.

We are always going to put the best interests of kids above the rights, privileges and priorities of adults.

If you grew up in a lower-income community, or less well-off, the belief is that the way to change that circumstance is through education.

An education reformer is as important in America as the first lady.

We all have to have more rigorous expectations of our kids in America.

I'd rather deal with anger than apathy.

Poverty is so significant that we can't expect to overcome the impacts of poverty in schools.

peoples see more those thing which they can't see, and they see less to which they can see properly.

You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.

I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.

Man is under all conditons immersed in a sea of God's blessings. Therefore, be thou not hopeless under any circumstances, but rather be firm in thy hope

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip.

We believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons.

We'd all be alot happier if we'd stop assuming we're supposed to be happy.

People forget ideas; they don't forget the real presence.

No man loveth his fetters, be they made of gold.