Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.

We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.

If a lawyer, if a teacher, if a bus driver, if they're on $40,000 and they get offered a lot more to go somewhere else, what do you think they're going to do?

High-quality public education - combined with other appropriate support, as needed - is the best way to achieve the Oregon Business Plan's goal of reducing the number of people living in poverty.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

I was a good student. My mom is a teacher, and her side of the family is all teachers. She put a big emphasis on getting good grades.