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

Asking the government to help you for short periods of time is different than asking the government to take care of you for the rest of your life.

I'll be one of the spokespeople, one of the people who sells the Administration's plans.

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.

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

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.

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