I believe in recovery, and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.

We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong.

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.

We're living in a whole new social and economic order with a whole new set of problems and challenges. Old assumptions and old programs don't work in this new society and the more we try to stretch them to make them fit, the more we will be seen as running away from what is reality.

July does not a November election make.

I think you have to deal with grief in the sense that you have to recognize that you have it, and say that it's OK to have all the sadness.

I'm not afraid to shake up the system, and government needs more shaking up than any other system I know.