Is there any more important problem than our lack of need-based scholarships? I think not.

If we are to attract private investment, if we are to be able to make the legislature feel the moneys from taxpayers are being used properly, we must be ever vigilant of the duty to efficiently use all funds we receive.

It makes no difference how low tuition is if the student has no source of funds to pay that tuition.

I come from a profession which has suffered greatly because of the lack of civility. Lawyers treat each other poorly and it has come home to haunt them. The public will not tolerate a lack of civility.

You may not be aware of a recent survey that showed that if the First Amendment were put to a popular vote today, it would fail by a 60% to 40% vote.

Is there any more important problem than our lack of need-based scholarships? I think not.

Academics often discount the value of top-rated sports programs in helping to develop a campus life and in contributing to the overall success of a college or university. Like it or not, the sports programs a college or university has are the front page of that university.

Higher education is not growing fast enough to meet the needs of Nevada.

We Americans have the great gifts of freedom and democracy, but it has been our education system that has fulfilled the promise of democracy.

Nevada has a world-class economy. It will only build a world-class culture with world-class research universities coupled with the Desert Research Institute.

It took the United States until 1920 to give women the franchise and another 40 or 50 years to start utilizing women's potential. How many women of incredible potential did we fail and what achievements were lost to all because we never tapped that potential?

To the extent that tenure supports academic freedom, I support tenure. I want no person or system to have any power, real or apparent, to chill academic freedom.

When in doubt, one can rarely go wrong by going public.

The new rule of thumb is that 80% of a president's time must be spent in raising funds for their schools.

No state legislature ever built a great university.

I know there has long been a great frustration among the African Americans in Nevada over their belief that we have not adequately responded to their desires to become more educated and more productive citizens.

No individual has a vested right to a job when that individual fails to perform adequately.

I'm a really good cook. I left home to start my career at 15 - so my choices were to either learn to cook or eat Ramen noodles for the rest of my life.

Like so many Boomers, I saw 'Lawrence of Arabia' in 1962 when it was first released and when we were young teenagers. I'm not quite sure why - I really wish some psychologist would explain this - but that movie had a tremendous effect on many of us.

It's interesting that the book publishing industry, on the iPad, has much more flexibility than the music industry had.

Anyone can come into your life and say how much they love you. It takes someone really special to stay in your life and show how much they love you.

Is this administration, the Clinton administration, an administration that needed defending?

The woman who gives birth to a child is like the banana tree that breaks under the weight of its fruit.

I will survive! Oh as long as I know how to love I know I will stay alive!

Having a good constitution is far more important than having an immediate constitution.

There's such big pressure on people who are incredibly famous, on those who have people sitting outside their front door and taking photos every time they move.

I love 'Somebody to Love' by Queen and of course 'Bohemian Rhapsody' is one of my favorites, just because it makes everyone in the room go crazy. Everyone tries to sing along with it, and half the room gets it right and the other half gets it wrong.

So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us.

Three of the top six documentaries of all time, grossing, are made by me.

The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.

I think that if you grind your spices and keep them in small batches, you can use them in endless ways. The key thing is to have a spice mill or a coffee grinder, and to keep your spices cold and in tightly lidded boxes.

The libertarian worship of individual freedom, and contempt for social convention, comes easiest to people who have never really had to grow up.

Later, in the early teens, I used to ride my bike every Saturday morning to the nearest airport, ten miles away, push airplanes in and out of the hangars, and clean up the hangars.

I'm 16 now, I was 15 when it happened... and the encryption code wasn't in fact written by me, but written by the German member. There seems to be a bit of confusion about that part.

As a born-again Christian, I believe God actively and directly influences me to action.

When you do a menu at a restaurant, you have to be the engineer of that menu. It has to be a crowd-pleaser.

In a Harvard University study, the diets of nearly 1,000 women were analysed before their morning melatonin levels were measured. Meat consumption was the only food significantly associated with lower melatonin production, for reasons that are as yet unknown.

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.

It's not right to think about all of Jewish-German history as shrouded by the smoke of the crematorium.

Chadron had a water tower, grain elevators, a tanning salon, a video rental store, a small liberal arts college, a Hardee's, a stoplight, and a curling yellow sign in the pet store window that read, 'Hamsters and Tarantulas Featured Today.'