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"My parents always told me that if you want something, you can do whatever you have to do to get it. As long as it's not against someone else."

"Grilling outside with my parents at the Jersey shore. We would grill lobster and corn in the summer."

"I don't think any child could really be happy between five and eight away from their parents."

"I have a great relationship with my parents. I have not been on lithium."

"And my parents' separation was tricky. But my mum had always been really honest with me, and treated me like an adult even when I was really young, so I knew they hadn't been getting on."

"My parents were angry, but they were relieved that I was in good condition. They had been afraid the Russians would torture me. They told me not to do it again!"
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"And I think that's righteous, I think that's what parents want to know. They want to know what's going right in the school, and what needs improvement, and that's what this law does."

"And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particularly with respect to how they're serving minority children."

"I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educators."

"My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they've been more pioneers on the special education side."

"In Connecticut, my understanding, although I haven't seen the actual litigation, is that they want to measure every other year and not provide annual assessment as is required in the statute."

"Again, the truth of the matter is we haven't paid that much attention to high school accountability."

"There's lots of institutions and lots of different cultures, and so that's the kind of thing that parents need to be able to evaluate, and students themselves, when they make a selection."

"We know that if we're going to remain economically competitive in the world, and viable as a civic democracy, that we're going to have to get more people educated to higher levels."
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