I'm totally opposed to vouchers. I will fight them tooth and nail.

The Democratic Party was always there on crime, but in the past we let the ideologues on the left dominate. The Republicans may still let the ideologues on the right dominate.

I want to attract the best people into teaching.

I made education the highest priority of my campaign - actually education and jobs - and the reason is a simple one: I think the future of America depends on it.

Let me say this, to all of the chattering class that so much focuses on those little tiny, yes, porky amendments - the American people really don't care.

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

The only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers.