I've always believed that if you support reform or you support a particular idea that you ought to fund that idea first and not the system.

You have to remember that in a state like Florida, independent voters will decide the election.

I don't think a party can aspire to be the majority party if it's the old white guy party.

Any time an elected official in the world we're in today that appears so dysfunctional challenges a core constituency not of their opponent but of their own political base, I think we should pause and give them credit.

We now have a lack of readiness that is quite scary. We have planes that were - that Harry Truman inaugurated, the B-52. We have - the Navy has been gutted and decimated. The readiness of the Marines is way down.

A third of our kids, after we spend more per student than any country in the world other than a couple rounding errors, 30 percent are college- and/or career-ready.

I know what I don't know. I would seek out, as I have, the best advice that exists. I won't get my information from the shows.