Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.

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.

Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.

I don't think we should be putting first-time drug offenders in jail for five years. It's a waste of resources.

The currency bill we have would finally do something for China`s rapacious policies.

[Barack] Obama administration, the [George W.]Bush administration have done nothing. And as China has manipulated its currency, we`ve lost trillions of dollars of wealth and millions of good-paying jobs.

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