It is moments like these that force us to try harder, and dig deeper, and to discover gifts we never knew we had - to find the greatness that lies within each of us.

In 2010 there were a lot of folks who were still out of work. There were a lot of folks who had lost their homes or saw their home values plummet, their 401k's plummet.

The conservative revolution that Reagan helped usher in gained traction because Reagan's central insight - that the liberal welfare state had grown complacent and overly bureaucratic, with Democratic policy makers more obsessed with slicing the economic pie than with growing the pie - contained a good deal of truth.

Working full-time should mean enough to support a family.

For decades, we've been told that it doesn't make economic sense to switch to renewable energy. Today, that's no longer true.

Everybody knows politics is a contact sport.

Money is the original sin in politics and I am not sinless.