(These) 529 plans really are pieces of (expletive) ... that are good in maybe 1 percent of situations, ... Hand my money over to bureaucrats? No thank you!

Is there apathy? At times, maybe. I think an awful lot of it comes down to priority of time, ... We're not talking about parents who don't care but parents who make a living so kids can have basic needs.

[Granville had a 100 percent graduation rate for the 2003-2004 school year. Newark had 78.1, while all other county schools exceed 90 percent. The state's graduation rate is 85.9 percent.] We are by no stretch of the imagination happy with a 78 percent (graduation rate), ... The greatest single education issue we have to deal with is our drop-out rate.

One of the most moving pieces is the bronze cast of the papal hand.

I don't know how he kept it together. I don't know, maybe the good Lord has His hand on him. I've never been in his shoes and I don't understand that way of life, but for him to come out of it, to face it, that's incredible.

In difficult and hopeless situations the boldest plans are the safest.