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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."
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"For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement."

"If you want to do something better, do it with profound love."

"You can choose better relationships, better jobs, better places to live, better uses of your time and better ways of treating yourself."

"When it comes to perfection, the most that we could possibly do is to continuously push closer and closer to it. It is truly something to aim at, just to see how close you could get to it."

"To become a better you, don't dream of becoming a superior over other people. Dream of becoming a superior over your previous achievements."

"Every year I try to keep in excellent shape and improve some part of my game. I play in the offseason overseas to keep my game tuned up and hopefully improve a little in some area."

"One key quality of all global achievers is that, they keep improving day after day. They set standards that they keep surpassing year after year."

"We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources."

"I have noticed a marked improvement in FEMA and with the coordination of FEMA and the State agencies."

"We have so much room for improvement. Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory... of how we are taking responsibility."
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"Again, the truth of the matter is we haven't paid that much attention to high school accountability."

"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."

"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."

"We want to obviously foster a relationship that we're a partner with states; that we all share the same goals of closing the achievement gap, just as the Congress does; and that we're practical and sophisticated enough to understand what they're talking about."

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

"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."

"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."
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