We can't afford as a nation - not because of money but because of our social fabric - to have large numbers of people who are not working.
The economic dimension is very clear. I was at a dinner party, a mother got up, who's a very distinguished scientist, and said she had to get home and help her daughter with her homework. The two waiters, their faces changed. They were working their second jobs, they couldn't get home to help their kids with homework.
I've spent my whole life with people underestimating me.
Asking the government to help you for short periods of time is different than asking the government to take care of you for the rest of your life.
Sex education has to do with what's in people's head.
I would argue that we have a generation of young people, particularly minorities, who are no longer putting up with the kinds of things their parents put up with. They're much more self-confident. It's no longer acceptable to make fun of people because of race or sex. But it has always been present in American society.
