You will be raising these kids in your mind your whole life. And they will change you. Your little contribution to it - twenty years from now, they'll be marching off into other things and that's still the legacy you leave.

If you listen to the debate, [Barack Obama] and [John] McCain said the same thing about gay rights.

Can we imagine a different world? I can. That's a world where work is rational, it's in the common good, and we're actually producing real things rather than spinning our wheels in dreams of consumer heaven.

Education is a right, it's a journey, it's a process, and it's something we have to stand for, as hard as it is.

The Right said, [Barack Obama] is lying, he's a socialist who pals around with terrorists, he's a secret Muslim and blah blah blah. That was their line. The liberals all said, He's winking at me, I can feel him winking in my direction. He wasn't winking. He said exactly who he was and he's lived that out perfectly.

It's the connection between schools and communities that creates greatness in schools.

I don't think of myself as a particularly nostalgic person.