Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.

Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.

To me, there is no room for the cynical politics of manufactured anger and false conviction.

We maintain that it doesn't belong on the site, ... It doesn't belong on sacred ground. Politics do not belong on this sacred place.

The politics of the possible was being replaced by the politics of purity.