I am convinced that knowledge is power - to overcome the past, to change our own situations, to fight new obstacles, to make better decisions.

God has opened many doors of opportunity throughout my lifetime, but I believe the greatest of those doors was allowing me to be born in the United States of America.

Military action is never the first thing that you jump to. You always look at other possibilities, including economic sanctions, tightening the screws.

Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself.

I got involved with classical music when I was in high school and it's followed me throughout my entire life and probably had a profound effect on my life.

Why would I want to run for Congress and continue to get tainted with all the things that people get tainted with as they come along the system.

I consider myself a logical person and, you know, a lot of people try to categorize me in one way or another. You know, there are some of the things that I say that probably would be considered very much non-conservative. But I don't think really conservative or liberal; I think: What makes sense? What's going to help the American people? What's going to give them what they need? Not only in health care but in terms of jobs, in terms of education, in terms of a whole host of issues.