Negativity drove me out of politics in the mid-Nineties.

Technology and social media have brought power back to the people.

If we cannot come together to pause, to respect our dead and the heroic lives of meaning they led, then ours is truly a civilization lost.

I prefer for government to err toward less regulation, lower taxation, and free markets. And I'm a radical free trader.

Debates require a lot of hard work and preparation. If you try to wing it, it shows.

America glories in its tradition of the self-made individual. Political candidates compete to be a friend to entrepreneurs, and policymakers, imagining the next Microsoft or Google, design laws to back the innovator in the garage.

I've spent the better part of my career in politics and public policy working on and fighting for education reforms.