Drawing on President Bush's reform plan, which would allow citizens to transfer part of their Social Security contributions into personal accounts, an alteration of the current system is needed to make necessary change.

If you read literature, you put yourself in somebody else's shoes. You learn from great figures in literature.

I have a long-term interest in the humanities.

The arts and humanities are vastly more important in troubled times.

Public decision-making does not lend itself to certitude.

Politics has high and low moments. Sometimes it brings out the better angels of our nature; sometimes baser instincts.

No activity I know is more of a confidence builder and at the same time more 'humility training' than wrestling.