All the legal action I've taken against newspapers has had a massively positive effect on my life and achieved exactly what I wanted which is privacy and non-harassment.
To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.
An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write.
Anytime you ride against the best in the world it becomes a learning process.
I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
No Child Left Behind's fourth-grade gains aren't learning gains they're testing gains. That's why they don't last. The law is a distraction from things that really count.
The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time.
The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.
I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing this - Tito and Mao Tse-tung.
Through leadership of the fight against French colonialism Ho Chi Minh had made a name for himself in the international political arena.