Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of my personal heroes.

People who are running for office mislead the American people by saying that there's a three-point plan or a bumper sticker kind of way of bringing down gasoline prices. The fact of the matter is that nobody can do that. The price of oil is set on the global economy. People who have looked at this closely and hard know that's the case.

Barack Obama was not born into wealth or privilege, yet today his is president of these United States of America. Barack Obama has lived the American Dream. He has walked in our shoes.

We are talking about institutionalizing a program on solar development that will outlast the Obama administration.

I would say to everybody that hydraulic fracking is safe.

Frankly that's what makes such a big difference between President Obama on one hand and Mitt Romney on the other. Gov. Romney has not walked in those shoes of the ordinary Americans and frankly I don't think he has the capacity to quite understand the struggle that the 98 percent of Americans go through every single day.

I want all the interested parties to come together and develop a solution that provides additional water and helps the lower Arkansas River communities thrive again.