Margaret Heffernan

For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.

The cell phone has become the adult's transitional object, replacing the toddler's teddy bear for comfort and a sense of belonging.

If we aren't going to be afraid of conflict, we have to see it as thinking.

If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!

Community colleges provide higher education where people live, helping to build strong ladders of opportunity that allow people to secure a foothold in the middle class.

I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it won't be successful.