John F. Kennedy went to bed at 3:30 in the morning on November 9, 1960, uncertain whether he had defeated Richard Nixon for the presidency. He thought he had won, but six states hung in the balance, and after months of exhaustive campaigning, he was too tired to stay awake any longer. Robert Dallek Read Quote
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. Martin Luther King, Jr. Read Quote
The ideal direction is using something like Khan Academy for every student to work at their own pace, to master concepts before moving on, and then the teacher using Khan Academy as a tool so that you can have a room of 20 or 30 kids all working on different things, but you can still kind of administrate that chaos. Sal Khan Read Quote
I believe the main solution is to gain the trust of Europe and America and to remove their concerns over the peaceful nature of our nuclear industry and to assure them that there will never be a diversion to military use. Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Read Quote
I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences. Wyclef Jean Read Quote
If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness. Seamus Heaney Read Quote
I will run an open government that speaks with honesty, seeks opinion, listens to its citizens. Enrique Pena Nieto Read Quote
I’m in favor of inequality if it comes about from people making great innovations that make us all better off. And I think those people deserve to be rich. But the people who get rich by lobbying the Congress to give them special protections that come out of the hides of the workers seems to be a bad idea. Angus Deaton Read Quote
