It's bad policy to speculate on what you'll do if a plan fails when you're trying to make a plan work.

What I tell student athletes is first of all, you've made good choices this far in order to be able to be in college and to be an athlete. Keep making good choices.

History's long arc is different than the today's headlines.

I learned a lot about my parents, who were both teachers. I had known that my parents were very strongly in favor of education. I had known that they had an impact on a lot of people, but people came out of the woodwork who have said, "You know, without your father, I would never have gone to college," very successful people. And so I learned how widespread their educational evangelism really was.

It's so much a part of me that it's almost hard to describe myself in the absence of [faith].

It is high time that the international community tell Saddam Hussein and his regime that this is not an issue of negotiation with the U.N. about obligations that they undertook in 1991.

I think there are plenty of men out there who are capable and accomplished in their own realm. You don't have to be in the same field.