Select candidates by integrity of character, not promises.

I don't have the support inside Washington or even inside my own party.

I went through two pretty dark years being fed up with the system and frustrated with my own party after two disastrous elections in 2006 and 2008.

Ideas are more powerful than people.

Cash-for-Clunkers program was a stupid idea.

I like to be a strategic policy guy.

A-PLUS Act - allow states to operate like charter schools.