I've consistently said, we need to support charter schools. I think it is important to experiment, by looking at how we can reward excellence in the classroom.

[J]ust because you have an individual right does not mean that the state or local government can't constrain the exercise of that right.

Each of us deserves the freedom to pursue our own version of happiness. No one deserves to be bullied.

You know, I have more than enough to do without having to worry about the financial system.

My conviction is that those fights need to be fought right now and can be won. And if in fact we have finite political capital, energy, resources, we need to win those fights.

Everybody knows politics is a contact sport.

Reality has a way of asserting itself.