That's the government. Having been a politician and a musician, I can tell you which one is a higher calling. If musicians ran the country, it would be a much different place. We wouldn't get a lot done in the mornings, but we'd work late.

Students don't know who Mark Twain was because he wasn't on the test.

You've got to find what you love and let it kill you. I don't think any of us should ever forget that.

Like most of us, I determined that I'd rather be a large part of the problem than a small part of the solution.

This system is really broken. No Child Left Behind has really failed and the only way to solve education is to leave one governor behind.

The only currency I value is the coin of the spirit. That's very important in my life.

I even went so far as to become a Southern Baptist for a while, until I realized that they didn't hold 'em under long enough.