You can't have a university without having free speech, even though at times it makes us terribly uncomfortable. If students are not going to hear controversial ideas on college campuses, they're not going to hear them in America. I believe it's part of their education.
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.
But for me, it is when a student has died. I find the death of a young person the most difficult and painful of times. To explain it to other young people, to see a bright future snuffed out, is just awful. I am haunted by those deaths.
Sex education has to do with what's in people's head.
You go to college not only for the latest knowledge but also to meet people from different backgrounds. That's the genius of the American higher-education system compared with the Europeans'. We don't simply skim the elite.
Asking the government to help you for short periods of time is different than asking the government to take care of you for the rest of your life.
By putting people around me who will calm me down and slow me down and make sure I work through an issue.
But I have a driver, so I can return calls while I'm in the car.
I have always hired people of different ages. Young people and older people. People in their 70s and in their 20s. People who are fully capable of talking back to me.
We can't afford as a nation - not because of money but because of our social fabric - to have large numbers of people who are not working.
The dog doesn't know the difference between Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, so I have to walk the dog early those days too.
I try to deal with my serious reading before work.
You don't want to destroy the energy that comes out of a campaign.
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.
What you really remember at the beginning was that you have to throw a budget together. We made some terrible mistakes at the beginning in my own budget that took us at least a year to catch up on.
We have to mainstream everybody. No matter what their circumstances when they were growing up. Part of that is knowing that after they're finished with school, everybody in this country gets up and goes to work.
We are living longer, and we need to live better.
The government is fully capable of delivering services. Even complex services.
Sure, it is apparent that presidents are looking at polls, but they are also stepping up on issues. President Clinton stepped up on tobacco. He shaped the polls on the tobacco issue.
In every community, whether large or small, there are people who lead in their community in easy and difficult times.
