Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.

Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.

These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don't know who is calling that child.

Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.

What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.

You don't have to care about children to care about children. One of the things that I talk a lot about is the fact of the importance of third-grade reading level. By the end of third grade, if the child is not at reading level, it'll drop off. They never catch up.

Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That's not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That's not leadership. That's abandoning our middle class.