If you're a poor worker - this is for new workers coming into the workplace - your benefits will increase at the current rate of increase. If you're a wealthier worker, your benefits would increase at the rate of inflation. And those changes would affect positively the unfunded liabilities inherent in Social Security.

You never know what your history is going to be like until long after you're gone.

The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.

Each congressional race really depends upon the candidates and how they carry the message.

It's kind of the Washington, D.C., chattering class. They kind of talk amongst themselves.

I'm just beginning to live the next chapter of my life. In other words, politics - being governor and president - is not the end of my life. It's a chapter.

You see, we'll never be able to compete in the 21st century unless we have an education system that doesn't quit on children, an education system that raises standards, an education that makes sure there's excellence in every classroom.