As the world fights those who use violence to advance their agenda, engagement, not neutrality, is needed in our educational systems.

Engagement provides opportunities to demonstrate how confrontation can be done both effectively and civilly

They [students] had two common, strongly held expectations: the college should exhibit the behavior it expected from students and hold true to its espoused values.

Preparing citizens to act thoughtfully to create a more just, open, and creative society gives form, substance and meaning to often abstract concepts of freedom and democracy.

It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway.

Speech, so a wise old Frenchman said to me once, is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking. It is also an infallible means of discovering that which he wishes to hide.

All right. Talk to me darlin'. You're not insane. A little crazy, but not insane. And this...everything you've gotten...in the last few days...do you know how many people would kill for this?""But...

I'm most excited to meet Jon Hamm at the Emmys.

The best wood in most amateurs' bags is the pencil.

Above all else show the data.

Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.

Life hangs as nothing in the scale against dear Liberty!

Ordained Baptist minister; I make no apology for my faith.

If you can't do it with feeling - don't.