“History never looks like history when you are living through it.” — John W. Gardner Quote

“History never looks like history when you are living through it.”

“I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.”

“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.”

“It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.”

“Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.”

“The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.”

“My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down in history books as one of the largest natural disasters in U.S. history.”

“Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.”

“I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist.”

“In the entire history of the human species, every tool we've invented has been to expand muscle power. All except one. The integrated circuit, the computer. That lets us use our brain power.”

“If you will read again what is written, you will see how it was.”

“The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.”