When times get tough, we don't give up. We get up.

I believe in evolution, scientific inquiry, and global warming; I believe in free speech, whether politically correct or politically incorrect, and I am suspicious of using government to impose anybody's religious beliefs -including my own- on nonbelievers.

I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.

People are discouraged from voting and part of what is important for Latino citizens is to make your voice heard, because you're not just speaking for yourself. You're speaking for family members, friends, classmates of yours in school.

Scientists and engineers ought to stand side by side with athletes and entertainers as role models.

Many of us were kind of irritated with Obama for larding it with tax cut, which we didn't think was going to be stimulative.

I will begin to remove our troops from Iraq immediately.