Patience is a virtue, and Americans have it in short supply.

For the past 25 years as an adoption attorney, I have witnessed the extraordinary courage and compassion of women - from age 14 to 40 - facing unplanned pregnancy. Not once did I believe that the government should interfere with their personal and private decision.

Go into the auto mechanic, youve got to know computers to be able to work on the cars.

Politics was sort of a way of life in our family.

Patience is a virtue, and Americans have it in short supply.

We need to invest in peoples lives so that they can do the jobs of the 21st century.

What I believe in, in terms of getting our economy going again, is that we need to invest in opportunity today for prosperity tomorrow.