There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.

This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

If a family is an expression of continuity through biology, a city is an expression of continuity through will amd imagination? through mental choices making artifice, not through physical reproduction.

A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.

On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.

On a good day, I view the job [of president] as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch -- engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction.