We're not perfect. We're a work in progress. But man, America has gotten a lot of things right.

Every bit of our lives revolves around how we get from one place to another and how long it's going to take to get there and what time of day you have to leave to do it.

Power is getting things done without having to demonstrate that you can bulldoze it through. I'm most effective when I've studied an issue, when I can make a credible argument, and then bring people along.

When you have schools that are operating in the 20th century, and we're trying to prepare our children for the 21st century, even those children know they are not educated in the right way.

I was eleventh-grade class president. That was the first elective office I held until I came into Congress.

No day is alike, nor should it be.

We're not perfect. We're a work in progress. But man, America has gotten a lot of things right.