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

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

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 filed a brief as a friend of the court in the U. of Michigan to keep affirmative action at the U. of Michigan, which I attended the law school. And I was one of the original sponsors of making the Martin Luther King birthday a federal holiday.

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

Politics takes patience, time, listening and endless meetings.

Life is the division of human cells, a process which begins at conception.