By the time they are 4 years old, children from poor families have heard 32 million fewer words than children with professional parents.

Retirement is not in my vocabulary. They aren't going to get rid of me that way.

You can't have a quality education without a sound financial background. They are getting quality education there. We need to make sure that quality education continues. We don't know what the state Legislature is going to do with the finances, and that will have a huge impact on what we do locally to support those finances.

The key to the trap is, of course, education. The feminine mystique has made higher education for women seem suspect, unnecessary and even dangerous. But I think that education, and only education, has saved, and can continue to save, American women from the greater dangers of the feminine mystique.

We are strong supporters of differentiated education. Children do not learn at the same pace, and no one program is right for everyone.

Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, "tuned the English tongue.