"Overparenting is gross!" —Katie Couric

"You give me better parents, better neighbors, better leaders, and better students, and I’ll make every teacher better and every great teacher outstanding." —Tom Friedman

"It sounds harsh but it’s empowering, this idea that hard work can fix just about anything." —Amy Chua

"There’s very little support for innovation. Innovation is not done by committee." —Ann Higdon

"Everyone has a hose dipped into the aquifer.  We are trying to get the poor a straw. The poor rely on a network of water vendors, a water mafia. The poor need financial tools to get their water."  —Gary White

"If our athletes were 25th or 27th  in the world as our students are, people would be outraged." —Eli Broad