Our school systems have to realize that everybody doesn't learn the same way, and no one learns without some emotional support.

What people don't realize is that everybody needs support, one way or another.

Everybody in America has been dependent on the government at some time. We owe everybody in America the right to vote and access to capital. What I say is, let's make America work, let's make democracy and free enterprise work for everybody.

Some kind of affirmative action is important in a democracy and for economic competitiveness and national security. The Army was the first to realize that you had to have desegregation of a military to have it working properly.

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.

Especially some of the poorest in our society need to have the greatest support because health inequalities are too wide.