"The amount of money we spend on education is important, but not nearly as important as how the money is spent."

"The men and women who serve in our military have won for us every hour we live in freedom, sometimes at the expense of the very hours of the lifetimes they had hoped to live."

"Half a world away nations that once lived under oppression and tyranny are now budding democracies due in large part to America 's leadership and the sacrifices of our military."

"In a time of tight budgets, difficult choices have to be made. We must make sure our very limited resources are spent on priorities. I believe we should have no higher priority than investing in our children's classrooms and in their future."

"Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come."

"When life was worrying about a car payment or a rent payment and a bill, you're so consumed with that, you really don't have time to know yourself. That's surviving and getting by."

"Now when I look back to the Guildford of that time, it seems far more exotic to me than Nagasaki."

"The future is keeping you out of the present time."