When you run for president you have certain obligations. One of them would be to avoid even the appearance of conflicts of interest.

When you run for president you have certain obligations. One of them would be to avoid even the appearance of conflicts of interest.

In education, I'm going to try to find what works. One thing I want to do is improve the quality of teachers. There are a lot of people who want to go into teaching; it's fundamentally a very fulfilling profession. But people don't feel they have financial support. We pay starting teachers in particular too little to attract the quality people that we need. I want to make it easier for good people who want to go into teaching to do that.

Ideological warriors whether from the Left or the Right are bad news for the bench. They tend to make law, not interpret law. And that's not what any of us should want from our judges.

We're going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We're going to beat guns into submission!

Unfortunately, the administration's plan is an ounce of cure for a pound of problems.

We are on the precipice of a crisis, a Constitutional crisis. The checks and balances, which have been at the core of this Republic, are about to be evaporated by the nuclear option. The checks and balances that say if you get 51% of the vote, you don't get your way 100% of the time. It is amazing, it's almost a temper tantrum.