What you earn depends on what you learn.

Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.

We find as our interdependence increases that, on the whole, we do better when other people do better as well.

Our land of new promise will be a nation that meets its obligations, a nation that balances its budget, but never loses the balance of its values.

When you get asked hundreds of questions, it's not possible to remember the answer to every one.

These dilemmas present perhaps the most enduring conundrum of human history: can people derive their identity primarily by positive association or does life's meaning also require negative comparison to others?

The purpose of affirmative action is to give our nation a way to finally address the systemic exclusion of individuals of talent on the basis of their gender, or race from opportunities to develop, perform, achieve and contribute. Affirmative action is an effort to develop systematic approach to open the doors of education, employment, and business development opportunities to qualified individuals who happen to be members of groups that have experienced long-standing and persistent discrimination.