Once you start saying, 'Let's talk political, my own politics, my own aspirations,' it can become not just distracting in that it takes time, but it can become confusing and frustrating, and is this now a political agenda or a governmental agenda.

I don't know people who don't say 'boy, the government is working better now.'

I have a portrait of Saint Thomas More in my office.

There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty

I am against the death penalty.

I believe global warming and climate change are real threats to our planet.

The essential job of government is to facilitate, not frustrate, job development