I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment. But if you snuff out that spark of learning, it is the cruelest and most shortsighted thing a nation can do. Too many children see that spark of learning snuffed out.

I represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic party.

I think the prophetic tradition of our faith is that to love God is to love justice.

I don't think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people.

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the

When it came to formal classes, I was a slacker. But I've always been a diligent autodidact and can teach myself virtually any subject - if I have a serious in…