“Politics is not a picture on a wall or a television sitcom that you can decide you don't much care for.”

“Don't you hate TV when people are supposed to be talking to one another? Television puts up a wall between people.”

“People don't care how much you know unless you know how much you care”

“People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care”

“If intelligence were a television set, it would be an early black-and-white model with poor reception, so that much of the picture was gray and the figures on the screen were snowy and indistinct. You could fiddle wiht the knobs all you wanted, but unless you were careful, what you would see often depended more on what you expacted or hoped to see than on what was really there.”

“You get to decide where your time goes. You can either spend it moving forward, or you can spend it putting out fires. You decide. And if you don't decide, others will decide for you.”