Why don't we scale up those things that do work.

Loving your enemy is a radical concept.

This is not a skill problem, this is a will problem. Does America have the will to make education a priority? We know the things that work. Why don't we scale up those things that do work.

That is still the case in this country for too many students, the soft bigotry of low expectations. If you don't expect them to learn, if you don't expect them to succeed - then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Poverty and wealth inequality are a form of instability into the future.

Democrats, too often, take blacks for granted, and Republicans, too often, simply ignore black voters.

I can't count the number of people I've talked to over the course of my career who have said to me that the thing that they most regret is the one time they did something just for the money.