We do need our defense capabilities. It is a fact that the cuts we are facing today and the cuts that Senator [Ted] Cruz would have supported would leave us with an even smaller Air Force and a smaller Navy than the one we are going to be left with.

Certainly being governor is an important job, and there are quality governors that could serve our country as president and have done so in the past.

I am personally open - after all that has happened and after ten years in that probationary status where all they have is a permit, I personally am open to allowing people to apply for a green card.

The American dream is not about how much money you make or how many buildings have your name on it.

You cannot give up on the American dream. We cannot allow our fears and our disappointments to lead us into silence and into inaction.

If someone can produce the law that keeps guns out of the hands of criminals but protects the right of law-abiding citizens to possess them, and doesn't infringe on those rights, I would consider that. But all the proposals I've seen do not achieve that goal. And we are missing a golden opportunity to have an important debate about violence in the USA. Violence in our society is the problem.

After all, the U.S. Senate already has one Arlen Specter too many.