The Department of Education should not be producing paid political advertising for the president, it should be helping us to produce smarter students.

In every issue there are winners are losers, and the losers are plenty. But they have to be willing to grudgingly accept the result. That's the genius of our democracy.

We are all so privileged to be citizens of America, and we all need to be engaged.

I've always had good energy; I've always had good health.

I don't think you can be a good listener unless you're a good listener. I think it's something that you really have to do, and if you really do it, then you can do it. If you don't do it, then you can't do it.

I'm running for president because I've had enough of the oil barons, the status-quo apologists, the special-interest lobbyists running amok.

I think it's time we had a president who carried the same life experiences into the White House as most ordinary Americans.