We have to mainstream everybody. No matter what their circumstances when they were growing up. Part of that is knowing that after they're finished with school, everybody in this country gets up and goes to work.

By putting people around me who will calm me down and slow me down and make sure I work through an issue.

Sex education has to do with what's in people's head.

I have to admit, in January and February I was in an absolute fuzz. I had no one on board. It wasn't that I didn't know what I was doing, but we didn't have all the pieces put together.

In fairy tales, the children are saved by caring adults. We need more caring adults in the lives of our children.

We can't afford as a nation - not because of money but because of our social fabric - to have large numbers of people who are not working.

We need to drive down requirements for the schools. In the 19th century, we increased the quality of the schools by higher education saying, 'You can't come in unless you have these skills, unless you've taken these courses.' We did that in Wisconsin when I was there, it helped to transform the secondary school system.