We will fiercely challenge those forces within the education establishment who impede innovation in our schools and who protect and defend inequality and institutional failure.

The government sets targets for increased four-year high school graduation rates as part of its agenda for improving Americans' health.

Some women are smarter than men, and some aren't. But to suggest to women that they deserve dominance instead of equality is at best a cheap applause line.

As anyone who has recently seen PG-13 movies knows, the level of violence in them has increased to the point of making the Motion Picture Association of America's voluntary rating system meaningless.

I fail enough and I beat myself up enough. I don't need anybody else to do it for me.

You want to know how I got these scars? I ripped every last piece of you out of my smile.

We are not the ones driving the boat of our behavior, at least not nearly as much as we believe.

Branson, Missouri, is Vegas for people with no teeth.

I'm so unfamiliar with the gym, I call it James!

I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.

Music for me is this thing that's sort of saved my life over the course of my whole life, whether it be writing songs or listening to other people's stuff.

I do not want to be cynical, but if developing nations are kept backward by being told, again and again, you belong to the poor and you are there, where you actually belong, then nothing will change.

Purity is something that cannot be attained except by piling effort upon effort.

All beautiful things must end. Otherwise they are not beautiful.