I knew early on that I would do politics, but I would never make a living at it. I would do something else.

Vegetarianism is a good idea.

When I was first on 'Dancing With The Stars,' people were really shocked and surprised.

I opposed the war in Iraq because I did not believe it was in our national security interest, and I still don't. What we [America] did was akin to taking a baseball bat to a beehive. Our primary security threat right now is terrorism - and by doing what we did in Iraq, we've managed to alienate a good part of the world and most of the allies whose intelligence and other help we need to combat and defeat terrorism.

Country comes before politics.

We can't just have mainstream behavior on television in a free society, we have to make sure we see the whole panorama of human behavior.

I don't live in Hollywood. I don't have celebrities as friends. I like them, but I don't pal around with them. I just live in the Midwest, a real normal world.