I think the American people deserve somebody telling them what is really happening in Washington.

I'm not asking people to feel sorry for me.

Everybody's a complex person. Everybody. Everybody's nuanced.

Having gone through what I went through, watching my family be torn to shreds and my children suffer immensely, I can't be the agent of doing that to someone else. I can't be the agent of causing someone to go to prison.

I'm a human being. I'm not perfect.

Some issues lend themselves to grassroots campaigns - homeschooling works well - but others require contrivance and connivance to whip up support. Often, lobbyists will hire vendors to dispatch blast emails and robocalls in the hopes of bombarding Congressional offices with citizen fury.

You can't beat somebody with nobody.