I think charter schools, choice, and frankly school standards need a champion.

I came to the conclusion is that we have a very shallow view of human nature in the policy world. We're really good at talking about material things, really bad at talking about emotions, really good at stuff we can count, really bad at the deeper stuff that actually drives behavior.

The prevailing view is that geniuses are largely built, not born.

I'm a little uncomfortable with the idea of judges overruling presidents on national security matters.

If you know that most processing is below the level of awareness, you learn the value of sleep. You're brain is working on the problem anyway.

It's hard for parents just to measure schools.

I, personally, think Trump improved pretty dramatically and certainly changed pretty dramatically over the last hundred days. He's less of the populist. He's more of the corporatist. He's less incompetent. He's trying to at least turn toward people who can put a decision-making process. And he's trying to adjust to the job. And so whatever one thinks of him, he is certainly a learning creature.