Many years later, a psychiatrist friend of mine said something to us. He said, "Respect denial." It's a powerful force.

I think that there's a lot of anxiety out there in people wanting their children to be part of the mainstream, to achieve based on the well-worn yardsticks.

Rapid change, accommodating it can be one of the great human capacities. But living through it can be the stuff of stress and often suffering.

The informed, unmanaged question. That's the most dangerous thing at a press conference anywhere.

When you get people standing up saying, 'I'm going to just tell the truth; what do we have to fear?,' it encourages others, and it creates a counterresponse.

[Barack Obama] says at one point, "[Jimmy] Carter, [Bill] Clinton and I suffer from," what he called, "the policy wonk's disease."

The media has become more forceful, has begun to recognize its traditional historic role and act on it, and truth is infectious.