The lack of education and lack of skills don't hurt the unemployed, they hurt America and American business, making us less competitive in the global market.

We have may teachers, animal, vegetable and mineral

I found myself being helped down to the car. That sort of help is actually a hindrance. If you ever see someone with a walking stick, that stick, and their arm, are actually a leg.

I oscillate between agnosticism and atheism.

Most of the soloists at Birdland had to wait for Parker's next record in order to find out what to play next. What will they do now?

But the thing that will always occupy me the most is music.

The only people who are desperate to go on the show are people we're desperate not to have on the show.

In between war and passivity, there are a thousand possibilities.

Peacekeeping works in some situations, but it very often needs other ingredients. Peacekeeping is not the aspirin of international security.

...to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.

It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office.