In every community, whether large or small, there are people who lead in their community in easy and difficult times.

We know the parental support, community support, makes a difference. It's not just the metrics of testing and putting pressure on the schools and on the teachers.

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

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.

You don't want to destroy the energy that comes out of a campaign.

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.