I think the American people can change Washington. But I think that it is not going to change, because somebody from on high directs that change.

I came in with a healthy skepticism about these programs. My team evaluated them. We scrubbed them thoroughly. We actually expanded some of the oversight, increased some of the safeguards. But my assessment, and my team's assessment was that they help us prevent terrorist attacks. In the abstract, you can complain about 'Big Brother' and how this is a potential program run amok. But when you actually look at the details, then, I think we've struck the right balance.

I think that Donald Trump is coming to this office with fewer set hard-and-fast policy prescriptions than a lot of other presidents might be arriving with.

There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.

My little girls can break my heart. They can make me cry just looking at them eating their string beans.

We can still see God in other people and do our best to help them find their own grace. So that’s what I strive to do and pray to do every day.

I've been fighting with Acorn, alongside Acorn, on issues you care about, my entire career.