There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.

I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society.

I was on the high school track team, believe it or not, and played baseball, poorly but passionately.

We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.

When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.

There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority.

There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.