My son is a blessing in every way.

I know how to take good ideas and turn them into sensible law at great odds.

The genetics of autism are real, but there are also environmental triggers.

I don't care what the political establishment says, Republican, Democrat - I'm a problem solver.

You know, my background, I was at a non-profit for years.

I think we need to have more women in the Republican Party talking about what it is were trying to do for families.

We need new energy back in Washington.

My son has autism, and I founded the government relations department at Autism Speaks.

I'm no fan of what I've seen health insurance companies do.

I believe both parties are sending the wrong kind of people to Washington, D.C.

The Lord gives the bread of adversity and the water of affliction for spiritual rebirth.

As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human race.

Persistence wears down resistance.

First decide what you got to do, then go out and do it. All we can do is to see each other through it.

They can give you all the pills on earth and do whatever - and you're still yourself.

Woe be to the generation that lets any higher faculty in its midst go unemployed.

I just get on with my game and let the referees do their job.

Over time, the federal government should move the nation to a single standard, clean-burning gasoline.

Any time you turn off and let someone else make any artistic decision for you, you make a mistake.

Play slow and perfect - that’s the way to becoming a virtuoso.