I've been a financial journalist for 30 years.

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 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.

Salary is the currency that is gotten from mortgaging your life and time

Nothing was truly unbearable if you had something to read.

A man, who needs you, will not come to visit you in the middle of the night. If he is there, definitely wants to stop you from being helpful.

I told my doctor I get very tired when I go on a diet, so he gave me pep pills. Know what happened? I ate faster.

It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.

The whites, too, shall pass - perhaps sooner than other tribes. Continue to contaminate your bed and you will one night suffocate in your own waste.

I can be very difficult if people are not professional, or lazy - or the opposite, which is take themselves too seriously.

The whole point of doing the pay what you want is to be reasonable with the fans.

Reading is important.

How can you say you want to be somewhere when you're not really sure if they want you there because they're not even talking to you?