"I would argue that we have a generation of young people, particularly minorities, who are no longer putting up with the kinds of things their parents put up with. They're much more self-confident. It's no longer acceptable to make fun of people because of race or sex. But it has always been present in American society."

"But I have a driver, so I can return calls while I'm in the car."

"We know the parental support, community support, makes a difference. It's not just the metrics of testing and putting pressure on the schools and on the teachers."

"Sex education has to do with what's in people's head."

"Well, the truth is that a lot of people lie about their health, they lie about the finances, they lie about things at work, they lie about things."

"Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong."

"There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow."

"Years ago nobody was elected on the economic ticket. It was either the education platform, or it was health or it was other issues. It is only recently that economic values have superceded every other human value."