We will meet our challenges head on and we will do it by rejecting the politics of mediocrity and corruption. You voted for change; I intend to deliver it. ... I will govern as a reformer.

Biofuels are the future of energy in this nation and around the world

Ask any woman and she'll tell you: health care for women is more expensive than it is for men. In fact, during their reproductive years, women spend 68% more on health care than men do.

A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce.

Our children's health and well-being are dependent on our commitment to promoting food access and good eating habits at home, at school and in the community.

One of the greatest challenges in collecting child support is that deadbeat dads move from job to job and state to state. it's hard to keep track of them.

I'm blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in a black community not far from where we lived. I saw it all growing up.

Part of protecting our homeland means being less dependent on foreign countries for our energy.

Health care is not a privilege. It's a right. It's a right as fundamental as civil rights. It's a right as fundamental as giving every child a chance to get a public education.

I don't believe there's any cloud that hangs over me. I think there's nothing but sunshine hanging over me.

Parents don't need government to raise their kids. That's their job. But government can help them protect their children from influences they may not want their kids exposed to

I don't imagine book elitists as my audience when writing. I dream about teachers, morticians and garbage men instead.

There was no use wondering about the past.

Success is 3Ms: Your vision produces the Map

There is work that is work and there is play that is play there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lie happiness.

I don't think I could ever do a network sitcom because the humor is often based on some trite circumstance. I don't want to be a part of a show where it's mostly about coming up with the jokes.

Everyone knows everything eventually.

The guy comes up to the plate, there's always a chance where he can get a grand slam and everybody forgets about all the times he missed.

I get recognised in the street, but that's more from all the Scottish people who are down in Blackpool on their holidays.

The longer you live, the longer you hear the repetitiveness of things. So, it's hard to get excited about new stuff.

Science is always inquiring.