We know the parental support, community support, makes a difference. It's not just the metrics of testing and putting pressure on the schools and on the teachers.

Every year, I am reminded of the kids who aren't in the freshman class and aren't graduating. I remember every single one of them. That is the worst of times for me, to see the future snuffed out.

The dog doesn't know the difference between Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, so I have to walk the dog early those days too.

I am interested in getting people to use the healthcare system at the right time, getting them to see the doctor early enough, before a small health problem turns serious.

By putting people around me who will calm me down and slow me down and make sure I work through an issue.

Sure, it is apparent that presidents are looking at polls, but they are also stepping up on issues. President Clinton stepped up on tobacco. He shaped the polls on the tobacco issue.

You don't want to destroy the energy that comes out of a campaign.

I have to admit, in January and February I was in an absolute fuzz. I had no one on board. It wasn't that I didn't know what I was doing, but we didn't have all the pieces put together.

We can't afford as a nation - not because of money but because of our social fabric - to have large numbers of people who are not working.

We have not yet concluded that needle-exchange programs do not encourage drug use.

I'll be one of the spokespeople, one of the people who sells the Administration's plans.

If you put all of your eggs in love’s basket, joy will hatch.

I did what I had to do. Now he's motivated.""Yeah, sure, motivated to s**t his pants maybe, " Luke pointed out.

Any book has behind it all the other books that have been written.

If you don't take your clothes seriously, why should your viewers take you seriously?

Everything that is full of life loves change, for the characteristic of life is movement toward a new goal and urges toward new pleasures

My mom and my stepdad are both therapists.

In the name of a race you cannot find any dignity in the contemptability of your race.

Work and life are an interconnected adventure, guided by the heart, winged with spirit, and nourished by the soul.

That was the thing. You just never knew. Forever was so many different things. It was always changing, it was what everything was really all about.

I shouldn't precisely have chosen madness if there had been any choice, but once such a thing has taken hold of you, you can't very well get out of it.