I didn't meddle. If I did meddle there wouldn't be all this violence. All this horrible sexism in games.

As a former Republican, I represent a group of Americans who all too often have no one to speak for them. This group doesn't necessarily have a name. We've been called 'moderates,' but that term can be misleading.

Anger's not a good emotion.

Students of America, working families of America: President Obama will not turn his back on you.

In the executive branch, winning by a whisker is as good as winning in a landslide, but not so in the Senate.

American education is still the wonder of the world, and we must open the schoolhouse doors, not close them.

Certainly the Republican Party changed and I never changed, as I became an independent my values never changed whether it's on fiscal responsibility, environment or using government tools to help the less fortunate.