"Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society."

"If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status."

"Moreover, as the leadership of the House confirmed last year, the Administration remains opposed to a congressional resolution on the Armenian Genocide due to Turkish objections. This approach sends absolutely the wrong signal to Turkey and to the rest of the world."

"In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period."

"There is no education like adversity."

"When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it."

"As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ever meet."

"People who make the choice to study, work hard or do whatever they endeavor is to give it the max on themselves to reach to the top level. And you have the people who get envy and jealous, yet are not willing to put that work in, and they want to get the same praise."