The Constitution is government's stop sign. It says, you - the three branches of government - can go so far and no farther.

I'm not motivated by vanity, glory or the quest for power.

I was the perfect candidate. America had their chance with the perfect candidate.

I am a fighter. I'm not just there to go along and get along.

If people are rude, that may be the end of the conversation, and maybe we won't have a subsequent conversation. But I believe in giving people the benefit of the doubt and believing the best about the person.

I thought if anyone need a leg up, it was our foster children. So, I started getting involved in education reform, and that was back in 1998. And as a result of all the reform work that I had done, people urged me to run for the Minnesota state Senate. I did, I was there for six years.

Well, what I want them to know is, just like John Wayne was from Waterloo, Iowa, that's the kind of spirit that I have, too.