Busy people tend to forgo the one activity - TV watching _ that is most lethal to community involvement

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

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

Our national myths often exaggerate the role of the individual heroes and understate the importance of collective effort.

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

Social capital may turn out to be a prerequisite for, rather than a consequence of, effective computer-mediated communication.

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.