There's a lot of feeling that the school curriculum has been bare-bones, just drill and, again, no art, music, and so on and so forth.

You have to remember, we may be the only nation, the only one I know of, that uses test scores not to assess kids, but to assess teachers. I think we're unique in doing that.

Twelve million students take the PARCC or Smarter Balanced. Now, if 5 percent opt out, that creates - that triggers some restrictions, and 5 percent of 12 million is only 600,000.

The measure of love is to love without measure.

Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.

Dallas Cowboys may be America's team, but the Houston Oilers are Texas' team.

We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat.

I'm an obsessive writer who needs and loves revision. Writing helps me learn and helps me teach.

Regardless of one victory, two victories, four victories, there's never been a victory by a cancer survivor. That's a fact that hopefully I'll be remembered for.

High interest rates focus on the revenue of a parasitic class.Historically the financial system has been structured in favour of moneyed interests, that is, creditors.

The problem with the Tea Party is that it's been used in a way that scares people into supporting an agenda that's counter to their own interests.

You have to want to play it all day, every day to get to the top.

I don't want problems solved for me. I want the fishing rod, not the fish.