Investing in [children] is not a national luxury or a national choice. It's a national necessity. If the foundation of your house is crumbling, you don't say you can't afford to fix it while you're building astronomically expensive fences to protect it from outside enemies. The issue is not are we going to pay - it's are we going to pay now, up front, or are we going to pay a whole lot more later on.

Democracy cannot breathe, indeed will die, if those enjoined to protect it and uphold the laws snuff it out - with no consequences.

Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for.

I try to be a person of faith.

The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.

I'm tough in the sense that I believe as strongly in what I'm doing as anybody else believes in what they are doing.

Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.