Politics has high and low moments. Sometimes it brings out the better angels of our nature; sometimes baser instincts.

- Jim Leach

The majority of U.S. high school students don't know within 50 years when the Civil War occurred.

- Jim Leach

The arts and humanities are vastly more important in troubled times.

- Jim Leach

There are words bandied about that are being misused - words like 'socialism,' words like 'communism,' words like 'fascism.

- Jim Leach

History provides a sense of where we've been and lessons that can be taken forward.

- Jim Leach

Public decision-making does not lend itself to certitude.

- Jim Leach

America somehow thinks that leadership relates to governance, and it certainly does. But society is much bigger than governance, and some of the trul…

- Jim Leach

America is very decentralized in how it supports the humanities, unlike European countries where virtually everything stems from the central governme…

- Jim Leach

If you read literature, you put yourself in somebody else's shoes. You learn from great figures in literature.

- Jim Leach