I was raised in a working class family of Baptist faith, and I went to college on a church scholarship where early teachings were reinforced. Abortion was wrong, I was taught.

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

And the president should be doing more about education than saying, 'Lights, camera, action.'

We can see beyond the present shadows of war in the Middle East to a new world order where the strong work together to deter and stop aggression. This was precisely Franklin Roosevelt's and Winston Churchill's vision for peace for the post-war period.

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

When you succeed (with legislation), that feeling is exhilaration. And it takes leadership from a president, which means you meet with members of Congress 24/7 and you talk and you listen.

I share the administration's goals in dealing with Iraq and its weapons of mass destruction.