In our hearts and in our laws, we must treat all our people with fairness and dignity, regardless of their race, religion, gender or sexual orientation. . . .

My father left me with the feeling that I had to live for two people, and that if I did it well enough, somehow I could make up for the life he should have had. And his memory infused me, at a younger age than most, with a sense of my own mortality. The knowledge that I, too, could die young drove me both to try to drain the most out of every moment of life and to get on with the next big challenge. Even when I wasn't sure where I was going, I was always in a hurry.

People should really take care when they vote, and pay more attention to what people say they're going to do - instead of just how they feel about how things are going.

Together, people with good hearts and fine minds can move the world.

The 22nd Amendment should probably be modified to say two consecutive terms instead of two terms for a lifetime.

It's the biggest public health problem in America, the rising rates of obesity among our young people and very heavy statistics among our adult population.

It simply doesn't make any sense for us to have illegal aliens in our custody in our courts and then let them go back to living here illegally. That's wrong and we should stop it.