If you're poor, you don't often live near a good school. If it's a competitive public school program, our kids are not prepared to enter those programs.

Success is its own reward, but failure is a great teacher too, and not to be feared.

Oh my God, I don't think you can say anyone looks forward to controversy.

When you come from a background like mine, where you're entering worlds that are so different than your own, you have to be afraid.

I don't believe we should bend the Constitution under any circumstance. It says what it says. We should do honor to it.

I honestly felt no envy or resentment, only astonishment at how much of a world there was out there and how much of it others already knew. The agenda for self-cultivation that had been set for my classmates by their teachers and parents was something I'd have to develop for myself.

Each time I see a split infinitive, an inconsistent tense structure or the unnecessary use of the passive voice, I blister.