Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas, in which the private sectors work subsidizes the disproportionate benefits of this new public sector elite. – Mortimer Zuckerman
The United States is the most innovative country in the world. But our leadership could slip away if we fail to properly fund primary, secondary and higher education. – Jeff Bingaman
Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science, with new, ingenious devices and techniques, can rescue us from the troubles we face without our having to mend our ways and change our patterns of activity. This is not so. – Henry W. Kendall
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion. – Robert Frost