I was honored to spend time with the President on an issue that is clearly important to him. I was also impressed by his wide receiver skills.

Sometimes all you need is just for somebody to believe in you in order to be able to accomplish maybe what you never thought you could.

I grew up in Texas, obviously a huge football state

There's not anything, I don't think, that I can do or accomplish

Under pressure, would I fold and disappear, or would I show everyone that when bad things happen, you fight?

You look at public education system, charter schools, infrastructure, in so many ways New Orleans has come back stronger.

I think the fact is that anybody who goes into politics feels like 'I can make a difference'. But it's not one person, you need so many others