Hey, nothing grows to the sky. There will be a successor movement. Right now it's nascent.

I think the Iraq War is not particularly tailored to American interests.

I think the Republicans are subverted by the fact that so many of their leaders send their kids to private schools, they don't really have the stomach for the fight.

I've been a financial journalist for 30 years.

In regard to music, I just think that it's always best to have an attitude of being a perpetual student and always look to learn something new about music, because there's always something new to learn. Don't dismiss something out of hand because you think it's either beneath you or outside of the realm of where your interests lie.

School houses do not teach themselves - piles of brick and mortar and machinery do not send out men. It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys and girls and makes them human, whether they be black or white, Greek, Russian or American.

Every child should be given a strong start to their education.

Poorer students take out larger loans and will have to contribute more to the cost of higher education.