But if you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than they've been brought there by no fault of their own, I don't think you have a heart. We need to be educating these children, because they will become a drag on our society.

American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.

I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.

In every interview I have ever read or seen or taken part in, the final question in our future-oriented society is always, What next?

There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.

Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities.

Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.

There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful.

Bigotry or prejudice in any form is more than a problem it is a deep-seated evil within our society.

Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country.