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"My parents were very supportive. They went to every show. And they never told me not to do what I was doing."
"My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do."
"Grilling outside with my parents at the Jersey shore. We would grill lobster and corn in the summer."
"I was very lucky. My parents raised me in such a way that it never occurred to me that I wasn't equal."
"I didn't want my parents to support me. I wanted to prove that I could do it by myself."
"I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio."
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"And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an intimate medium of television, and that we can do reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality."
"Again, the truth of the matter is we haven't paid that much attention to high school accountability."
"We at the Department of Education are going to provide technical assistance; I've committed $14 million to show states how they might meet this more sophisticated approach."
"But the other notion is, we also believe that those folks closest on the ground that we're holding accountable for the results can decide, and ought to evaluate which programs get results."
"Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry."
"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."
"My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they've been more pioneers on the special education side."
"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."
"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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