I bring other constituencies - I also have ties to minority communities. And obviously, to the world of world-class research universities. So I can bring some constituencies that I'm used to working with.

I try to deal with my serious reading before work.

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

I'm pretty disciplined and am almost always on schedule.

We have not yet concluded that needle-exchange programs do not encourage drug use.

What you really remember at the beginning was that you have to throw a budget together. We made some terrible mistakes at the beginning in my own budget that took us at least a year to catch up on.

I think anyone that thought that we were coming in as a bunch of liberal Democrats to deliver more large-scale social programs was nuts. I sure didn't expect it.