Sustaining the energy and focus involved in doing a good job I think starts to - starts to gets tougher the longer you do it.

Unless you're one of the first Americans, a Native American, you came from someplace else. Somebody brought you.

The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition. It distracts you from what's truly important.

I could say, as a member of Congress, we usually get an alert if something is going to happen at the Capitol.

So many of my staff is young enough that they're going to do amazing things. And I'm going to be helping them try to do them.

The other reason might be that you want to talk to voters when you've got seven primaries in seven days. Understand what's happened in this race - where we campaign actively in a state, and voters have the chance to see me directly, they check under the hood, and they kick the tires, when we don't have as much time.

Every life must be given the chance to realize its full potential - that every life matters.