I want Americans to realize that we are the owners of this country, and that one person can make a difference.

Everybody gets sick; everybody has had a problem with insurance or the prescription drugs they're supposed to be taking or an elderly parent who needs care.

My dad was an assembly line worker at AC Spark Plug, which was a division of General Motors, and his job was to build and then inspect the little spark plugs as they came off the line.

How about that McDonald's two blocks from Ground Zero? That's killed more people than the 19 hijackers.

A lot of people on Capitol Hill don't want to talk to me.

I've read stories of slave owners who were very generous. They didn't keep them in shackles, they didn't whip the slaves, they built schools and churches for them, free housing, free food, free everything. It's wrong. No matter how nice you make it look, it's wrong.

I want us all to face our fears and stop behaving like our goal in life is to merely survive.