In America, what makes us so successful is the innovation, the competition, the focus on merit.

My knowledge of the universe is that if I write stupid jokes, the universe gives me a really nice house and great meals. I do not believe mankind will ever develop a formula to explain this.

Just putting a computer in front of a student doesn't make education better.

It's very early in the market. I don't want to pretend I know exactly how this rolls out. But there's been an enormous amount of interest.

We are not seeking to impose a recall.

Most people get better when they face competition.

We [the United States] are not every other country. And models that work elsewhere may not have the same impact here.

In the immortal words of Roberto Duran, we are saying, 'No mas!' We will educate students and then promote them, not the reverse

You are likely to keep repeating the same mistake all over again if you do not agree it’s a mistake.

Kindness expressed to a stranger is kindness expressed to God.

Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.

What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and honest, even if it is ugly and grotesque.

Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.

Cool thing about Fidel Castro is that the CIA and the mafia - which are both terrible organizations that tried to murder him again and again - haven't succeeded.

We all have problems, and we must solve them together or we die alone.

I never really understood fashion as a career. For me, it was really a state of mind, more like something that I always had in my life.

People have got to show up, showing up at meetings, rallies, marches, City Council, courtrooms. You've got to show up.

Revolutionaries don't get job security. They compete with rats for cheese and with strays for shelter--after the big bullets make feet out of their knees.