We must be willing to pay inspiring math and science teachers, who have high paying alternatives in industry, more to teach and reward students who take more challenging courses in high school.

Asian countries produce eight times as many engineering bachelors as the United States, and the number of U.S. students graduating at the masters and PhD levels in these areas is declining.

Ethanol and biodiesel allow people to burn a cleaner form of energy.

All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.

Too many vital education dollars that should be spent in the classroom are bouncing around in the federal bureaucracy.

I was the first boy in the Kennedy family to graduate from college.

This enemy of peace in the world today is unlike any we have seen in the past, and our military is learning from, and building on, previous successes while carrying peace and freedom into the future.

The lack of substantial resources and staffing along the Northern U.S. border poses a real security threat.

Overseas, America's fighting men and women have been waging war against those who would attack America and plunge the world into a period of darkness, and their success can easily be seen.

Part of Washington keeping its promises is a focus on directing more dollars into our local classrooms.

We must conserve our environment and pass it on to our children in as good or better condition than it was passed to us.

Life is too big for small dreams.

If someone doesn't understand the importance of sensitivity readers, chances are they may need them the most...

Most people just want to be left in peace to eat their bacon, not realising that there is no peace behind bacon.

What a stupid attitude we have in this country to personal stories.

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

We've seen more reform in the last year than we've seen in decades, and we haven't spent a dime yet. It's staggering how the Recovery Act is driving change.

And yet when you take Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, whatever, their combined killings in the name of religion -- well, that would be zero.

I would consider a socialism a mixture of the minimum of centralization necessary for a modern industrial state, and a maximum of decentralization.

Things usually make sense in time, and even bad decisions have their own kind of correctness.

To the student I would say, "Life is principally multiple choice, but at the end there's a tough essay question.