So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall.

I'm still basically an idealist, which translates into getting real things done to make people's lives better.

Whether you are a Democrat or Republican, whether you are a liberal or a conservative, we know that neither this President nor prior Presidents of both parties did everything right or we would not have had a 9/11.

If we are going to stay a great power and I hope and pray we will we need the truth. We need to know what is going right and we need to know what is going wrong. There is no greater time than now.

Certainly any president - Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative - should keep an open mind until they get the briefing.

I'm going to focus on people and what they need, not on name calling between politicians.

I told the President, I told Rahm Emanuel and others in the administration that I thought the policy they took to try to bring about negotiations is counter-productive, because when you give the Palestinians hope that the United States will do its negotiating for them, they are not going to sit down and talk.