The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it

It is a rare American who does not have some story about how music has made our lives richer and more interesting, how it has changed our moods, brought out the best in our character and even sometimes helped us earn a living.

If we trust parents to choose child care for their children, and we trust them to help their children choose a college to attend – and both those systems have been so successful – why do we not also trust them to choose the best elementary or high school for their children?

Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to begin to win.

The idea of windmills conjures up pleasant images - of Holland and tulips, of rural America with windmill blades slowly turning, pumping water at the farm well ... But the windmills we are talking about today are not your grandmother's windmills. Each one is typically 100 yards tall, two stories taller than the Stature of Liberty, taller than a football field is long.

I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now.

Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes.