I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.

The highest priority you can have is education.

I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.

If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say?

The export market is based, on high-paying jobs. I`ve seen statistics that show that people make over 88 a year generally benefit from this because these are export jobs.

We need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor people don't starve. Those are values, too.

When I started to get involved in the crime issue, people said, "it's a local issue." I said, "No, there are lots of ways the federal government can help." And the best way the federal government can help, and did in the Crime Bill, is to find programs that work around the country and help them spread.