Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified.

The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.

In Europe, it appears that in the name of democracy, elites are pursuing an autocratic, centralized power, seeking economic control and social regimentation.

Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason, and those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.

Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.

Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.

Oregon is the only state in the union that facilitates suicide.

For faithful Catholics, communion is not just a nice ritual: It is the body and blood of Jesus Christ, and the ultimate sign of our willingness to be incorporated into the church.

To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.

Getting married is the boldest and most idealistic thing that most of us will ever do.

When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.

You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

I guess a good song is a good song is a good song, ya know.

The difference between animals and humans is that animals change themselves for the environment, but humans change the environment for themselves.

Each time you fall He'll pick you up. He knows your own efforts are never going to bring you anywhere near perfection

Art is the absence of fear.

The poet is an untier of knots, and love without words is a knot, and it drowns.

One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.

But death's acquisitive instincts will win.

Be a function of your values rather than a function of the impulse or desire of any given moment.