I think the best way it happens is if parents say, this is important for educating my child.

It's better to fight because if you don't fight, you can't win. Besides, even when you don't win, you can change the game.

If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu.

It's so easy to focus on what could go wrong, on what else you could do before you try the thing you really want to do. No. Just get out there and try.

If Scott Walker sees 100,000 teachers & firefighters as his enemies, maybe it's time we take a closer look at his friends.

Keep a little space in your heart for the improbable. You won't regret it.

If there's any lesson I've learned in the last five years, it's don't be so sure about what lies ahead. There are amazing doors that could open.

Being Native American has been part of my story I guess since the day I was born.

We don't win what we don't fight for.

President Obama believes in a level playing field.

It's a simple idea: We all do better when we work together and invest in our future.

Be a slave of your potential and not a slave of circumstances

Politicians use religion, and they get their troops riled up with religion.

If God exists, Id be the first to be told.

A man always looks good in a dark suit.

Any time you stop looking at evil as a black and white thing, it's helpful. So the fact that there won't be any obligatory Islamic terrorist stereotypes in movies any more, that'd be helpful.

Ours is the country where, in order to sell your product, you don't so much point out its merits as you first work like hell to sell yourself.

Nasr combines in his writing audacious intellectual criticism, deep understanding of Islam... and a commitment to the Western-European contributions to the emancipation of the human condition.

Generosity is the flower of justice.

Like their predecessors, the Presidents of today just throw up their hands.

Not every light is a true light; To the wise the light of truth is light itself.