I'm not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.

I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.

I'm a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.

Believe in something larger than yourself ... to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.

I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.

I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.

I think a lot of our problems are because people don't listen to our children. It is not always easy. They're not always so brilliant that you want to spend hours with them. But it is very important to listen to them.