Health care probably contributes a lot more to the common wealth than finance.

Customer service, they say, is dead. Actually, it isn't. It's just hiding behind a call center in Manila.

Being a teacher is back-breakingly difficult work. It is also extremely important work.

Being superintendent or the superintendent's chief of staff is important work, but there's no chance it's as difficult as being a teacher, and I hesitate to say that it's as important.

In shuttering Yucca Mountain, Obama makes it extremely likely that nuclear power in the United States will continue its long, slow, and extremely welcome death.

Conservatives often say that we should care not about equality of outcomes but about equality of opportunity.

Republican presidents talk about freedom. Democratic presidents talk about equality.

If you want to slow medical inflation in the private sector, it makes sense to expand the government's investment in private health care.

Expressing truth is hard work.

To pine for the days before public education became a practical reality is to pine for an America held back by mass ignorance and mass illiteracy.

Nothing energizes me more than to burrow myself under a pile of received wisdom and emerge triumphant with the truth.

Do not fear adversity. Win it over. It will make you wiser and stronger.

Those who are equipped will survived. Those who are not will not.

Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.

Between memory and reality there are awkward discrepancies.

Find purpose. The means will follow.

This year [2016], however, polls show [Hillary] Clinton winning white college-educated voters by double digits.

My Poor Dad Often Said, 'I'd Rather Be Happy Than Rich.' My Rich Dad Said, 'Why Not Be Both?'

Your field of focus determines what you find in life.

With age comes wisdom and confidence, and I don't feel like I'm seeking approval as much as I used to from other people.

I will praise any man that will praise me.