What we want for our students we should want for our teachers: learning, challenge, support, and respect.

One or two bad teachers is a problem with the teachers. A school with many bad teachers is a problem of leadership.

There is no algorithm for creativity.

The quality & morale of teachers is absolutely central to the well being of students and their learning.

We need standards with flexibility, not standardization with force if we are to get the best from our teachers.

High performing organizations have cultures of creativity and risk. They encourage workers to innovate and play.

Teachers create and transform energy. They are the dynamos of educational change.

It's important to be innovative when times are prosperous. It's essential to be innovative when they are not.

Standardized personalization=universal right to meaningful learning. Personalized standardization=flexible access to mandated learning.

The bags that teachers carry home symbolize their guilt about the endless care they have to give.

We must never return to the Julie Andrews curriculum where we teach "a few of my favorite things"!

If you say one lie enough times, it becomes truth people start to believe. (That's how it works - Extracted)

People who need to believe in deities can find them everywhere they look.

What I want to do more than anything as president of the United States is to restore the honor and dignity and respect that this country is owed around the world.

Almost everywhere men have become the particular things which their particular work has made them.

I'm living in a very modest place. I have a room over-looking beautiful Claridge's Hotel. I thought it was better than paying Claridge's prices and overlooking the dump I'm living in.

It seems to be that way with most things. No one to do the really disagreeable jobs except oneself.

Indeed, when all parties campaign effectively the overall effect is to push up voting rates, as you see in tight marginal seats or close general elections. That must be good for democracy.

There is no medicine to cure hatred.

All truth is an achievement. If you would have truth at its value, go with it.

I've been a political junkie for a long time. I find the way Washington works is just fascinating to me.