Let’s teach kids, at the kindergarten level, what the contributions of people of color were to building the United States of America.

I know that a large part of my fan base is gay. They’ve shown me love from the start. I mean in this industry, everyone from my glam people to my dancers are gay. You can’t be homophobic in this line of work – I’m a pop star!

Swimming has its educational value – mental, moral, and physical – in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

The educated Southerner has no use for an ‚r‘, except at the beginning of a word.

I believe that in the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can’t knock it.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.

Our teachers deserve better feedback.

On the other hand, you have different fingers.

When you’re traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I’ve met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events.

I didn’t know any gay people in my childhood.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

I did go to Wellesley, a women’s college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.

Men and women aren’t the same. And they won’t be the same. That doesn’t mean that they can’t be treated fairly.

Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.

Neither the Christian attitude of love for all mankind nor humane hopes for an organized society must cause us to forget that the ‚human stratum‘ may not be homogeneous.

It’s a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they’re different. It’s very limiting.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.

Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West. The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.

The last time I visited Qaddafi was in May of 2001, 15 years after Reagan attacked his rather modest residence where he took me to show me how it had been left.

The Bible is full of warnings about false prophets and false messiahs. These satanically inspired people have appeared in almost every generation of history.

We boil at different degrees.

We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, ‚We, the people.‘

You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise.

I believe in libraries because most students don’t have any money.

America’s experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It’s about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

The events of October 1962 are widely hailed as Kennedy’s finest hour.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.

The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson’s. There’s no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.

Is the Iranian record of intervention and terror worse than that of the U.S.?

If a child from an Amazonian hunter-gatherer tribe comes to Boston, is raised in Boston, that child will be indistinguishable in language capacities from my children growing up here, and vice versa.

Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it’s digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules – not just for governments but for private companies.

What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.

All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.

I don’t believe in colleges and universities.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

As strong as the United States is, we can’t deal with terrorism alone.

The highest grade I’ve taught is the 11th grade, and the youngest I’ve taught is the 4th grade.

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It’s sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

I am a beneficiary of the American people’s generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here.

I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I – if I’m not interested in something, I don’t grasp it.

You’ve really got to start hitting the books because it’s no joke out here.

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven’t had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they’d both unite against an invasion from Mars.