I used to be a conservative.

If someone wants to run a campaign about '90s nostalgia, it's not going to be very successful.

Half of the interview is substantive and half of it I think is sizing the person up.

Public education must be viewed from the lens of providing each child with the learning environment that best meets his or her needs. If we can send a low-income child to a parochial school, knowing that his odds of attending college will increase as a result, then that should be our mission.

I just think people, when they get elected, they ought to serve. They ought to do their jobs.

Everything's viewed with a political lens in Washington, and that's just the nature of the beast, and it is what it is.

I'm a skeptic. I'm not a scientist. I think the science has been politicized.