If you are a lousy teacher, you should be fired.

When you see a great teacher, you are seeing a work of art.

I want to be a children’s hero… Children need heroes because heroes give hope; without hope they have no future.

You have to be prepared to think outside the box...Stand back and think about what we could do creativity. We've got to do that to push the field forward.

It's easy to have faith when everything is going great. The real test of faith is when you're facing something that only your faith in God will get you through.

Build an organization that can tackle the tough things and keep moving.

Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure.

Osama Bin Laden is not going to come here and destroy America. Our education system is doing that just fine.

Boys want to grow up to be like their male role models. And boys who grow up in homes with absent fathers search the hardest to figure out what it means to be male.

When I was growing up, kids used to talk about snitching... It never extended as a cultural norm outside of the gangsters.

Let's stop teaching to the middle and start teaching to the student.

Heart stop aching, mind stop thinking.

A right delayed is a right denied.

I love to see how far you're able to go, both in skills but also emotionally how far I can push myself.

There is always room for at least two truths.

The only way those Ten Commandments and prayer would be stripped from that Courtroom is with the force of arms.

If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.

Our government has a responsibility to defend our borders, but we must do so in a way that makes us safer and upholds all that is decent and exceptional about our nation.

I have no clue. I have ovaries; therefore, I repel all things mechanical.

I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father. I want to be judged on my own merits.

Have a little faith in me, Volger." "I have great faith, tempered with vast annoyance.