Movies portray men as tough guys.

When you see a great teacher, you are seeing a work of art.

One of the things that sells music is when the artist is looked at as someone who's come up from the streets. Not just any streets, but the toughest, meanest streets of the urban ghetto. And that's called 'street credibility'.

Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure.

Osama Bin Laden is not going to come here and destroy America. Our education system is doing that just fine.

There is an educational cliff we are walking over right this very second.

Build an organization that can tackle the tough things and keep moving.