It is very discouraging that we are in school on Good Friday. I hope that we can work around that next year.

I used to think of California as in the vanguard. Now its school spending is among the bottom 10. We need to increase school funding by more than the trivial amounts being talked about.

It's much different than high school. But the (Commodores) obviously know Alex is a tough-minded person. He's very confident in what he does.

We are the last generation to have finished secondary school in socialist Yugoslavia. We hope we are not the last generation in a relationship of this kind.

Bill Gates and I kind of cooked it up together. We hope we could get a school program someplace, where the kids were taught the game and . . . develop a lot of competition between schools.

I hope we don't have a need for those this year, ... But in the Clark County School District you deal with whatever comes your way.