I study children, and they're my subjects in my studies. They're my colleagues, really, all these little kids. And I owe them.

I know all the problems of the schools. They're rigid, they're bureaucratic, they've got a lot of problems. But it's such an important institution, and holds such promise.

All of us know high-I.Q. people with whom we don't want to be in the same room.

I thought the whole idea of being a conservative was to keep the government from messing around in people's lives. And yet they say the government should be getting into people's families. That's messing pretty heavily where I come from.

I study children, and they're my subjects in my studies. They're my colleagues, really, all these little kids. And I owe them.

It's also the environment that determines a considerable part of the growth and development of children.

You win what you can win when you can win it, and keep pushing - all the time. And that's how this game is played. And I'll play it till I can't play it anymore.