This is how I learn most of what I know about my children and their friends: by sitting in the driver's seat and keeping quiet.

Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. We human beings are best understood one at a time.

The difference between government and leadership is that leadership has a soul.

I think there was a long period of time when we got real invested in a youth culture, and not coincidentally it was when the baby boomers, who let's face it, take up a lot of space on the planet, were young.

We are awash in the revealed world.

part of the problem with a war on poverty today is that many Americans have decided that being poor is a character defect, not an economic condition.

[President Johnson] had the political will to say that having one in five Americans living in the kind of abject conditions their fellow citizens associated with Third World countries and the novels of Dickens was as dangerous as any battlefield enemy.