"Ninety percent of the students take the 'preferred lender.' Why? Because that's the nature of the relationship. You trust the school. The school is in a position of authority."

"There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty."

"The essential job of government is to facilitate, not frustrate, job development."

"I believe women still face a glass ceiling that must be shattered."

"Where compassion abides, fear and resentment lose their dominion. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams."

"I have the courage of my convictions."

"The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next."