I think the Republican budget priorities are messed up. I salute for the way they're attacking some of the entitlement programs, but they are taking huge cuts, by pretending they're just block-granting it to the states, out of Medicaid, from the least fortunate.

It’s not that Egypt doesn’t have a recipe for a democratic transition. It seems to lack even the basic mental ingredients.

It's hard for parents just to measure schools.

Betsy DeVos is not the most informed person on education policy, but I have seen her present a few times, and she presents as a pretty respectable, intelligent person who has cared passionately about education and cares about charter schools.

People have been raised in a morality that says, "If it feels all right for you, it's probably OK."

It’s only useful to ask, what wisdom have you learned from your misjudgments that will help you going forward?

Politics really is a team sport. You really have to work the whole system to get somewhere down the road.