It's very important for people to know themselves and understand what their value system is, because if you don't know what your value system is, then you don't know what risks are worth taking and which ones are worth avoiding.

(I'm) the only one to take out half a brain, although you would think, if you go to Washington, that someone had beat me to it.

It's not what you do but that kind of job you do that makes the difference.

I think what's happening with the veterans is a gift from God to show us what happens when you take layers and layers of bureaucracy and place them between the patients and the health care provider. And if we can't get it right, with the relatively small number of veterans, how in the world are you going to do it with the entire population?

I just happen to believe that people are not stupid.

I wish the government would read the Constitution. I think that would probably help quite a bit. And maybe they did read it and maybe they got confused when they read the preamble which says one of the duties is to promote the general welfare.

I think of success as reaching beyond ourselves and helping other people in specific ways.