I have always believed that I could help change the world, because I have been lucky to have adults around me who did.

People who don't vote have no call on political leaders!

Why are guns the only unregulated consumer products in America? We regulate toy guns and teddy bears, but we do not regulate a product that kills 4,600 children a year.

The literacy level at Mississippi prisons? Fifth grade. Can't read, what are you going to do? If you've got a conviction rap, what are you going to do? It's a real crisis.

I don't care what my children choose to do professionally, just as long as within their choices they understand they've got to give something back.

Children cannot eat rhetoric and they cannot be sheltered by commissions. I don't want to see another commission that studies the needs of kids. We need to help them.

Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?