George H.W. Bush: “We want U.S. students to be first in the world in math and science achievement.”

We've seen our discourse degraded by casual cruelty.

You know, Brian, if this thing works out the way the Canada/United States free trade agreement has gone so far, 25 years from now the ideal result might be the following: There will be prosperity in--added prosperity in Canada, in the…

I think you are engaging in the soft bigotry of low expectations.

This means that people of every race, religion, ethnicity can be fully and equally American. It means that bigotry or white supremacy in any form is blasphemy against the American creed.