Humor itself is a great disinfectant. It enables people to listen.

The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters.

We are creating a one size fits all system that needlessly brands many young people as failures, when they might thrive if offered a different education whose progress was measured differently. Paradoxically we're embracing standardized tests just when the economy is eliminating standardized jobs.

If you give up on democracy, you might as well give up on everything.

You`ve got to just follow the money [in Washington]. You see it. There`s no countervailing power.

There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms.

The fastest growing occupation in the private sector is security guards. The fastest growing occupation in the public sector is prison guards. (1992)