What I want to do first with education is my student loan idea. Basically, if you go into teaching and teach for five years, your student loans should be forgiven. It doesn't cost that much.

When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done.

I want to attract the best people into teaching.

Republicans always try to paint Democrats as weak on defense. This time, they can't. After all, Mitt Romney's idea of an overseas accomplishment is sending U.S. jobs there.

Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble.

I'd like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company.

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.