Movies portray men as tough guys.

I want to be a children’s hero… Children need heroes because heroes give hope; without hope they have no future.

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

I graduated from Bowdoin College and went to the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Then I left and took a job teaching really poor inner-city white kids in Boston. It was interesting to me because I'd never been around poor whites before.

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

Middle-class families know education begins at birth.

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