The word gap leads to an achievement gap and has life-long consequences

No society can thrive when half its people are left behind.

There's a lot of fear - in fact, teachers and parents are calling it the Trump effect. Bullying is up. A lot of people are feeling, you know, uneasy. A lot of kids are expressing their concerns.

If we're going to be an effective, efficient economy, we need to have all part of that engine running well, and that includes Wall Street and Main Street.

I don't want people who just tell me what they think I want to hear, because that doesn't do me any good.

He [ Vladimir Putin] would rather have a puppet as president of the United States.

For more than a half a century, we know that we prospered because of a bipartisan consensus on defense and foreign policy. We must do more than return to that sensible, cooperative approach.