None of the people watching 'Big Brother' will bring you chicken soup if you get sick.

Most Americans watch Friends rather than having friends.

People may go to the library looking mainly for information, but they find each other there.

Community connectedness is not just about warm fuzzy tales of civic triumph. In measurable and well-documented ways, social capital makes an enormous difference in our lives...Social capital makes us smarter, healthier, safer, richer, and better able to govern a just and stable democracy.

None of the people watching 'Big Brother' will bring you chicken soup if you get sick.

How well you do in life shouldn't depend on how well your parents did.

Look, we ought to do this for our kids... We ought to have a high school so that every kid who grows up here - they're all our kids - gets a good high school education.