The solution is to change the cake recipe, and that's the way it is with government. We can start adopting policies that work and that encourage economic growth. If you got incentives for encouraging big business development but not small or medium business development, it's not going to work. It needs to work for all three.

I wasn't elected to avoid conflict. I was elected to represent the people of the 2nd District.

There are people who own cars and are getting free cell phones. A car helps one find a job, too. Where do you draw the line?

Working at the White House is an honor for any preacher's kid from Magnolia, but the issue is jobs.

While arguments rage about plant- versus meat-based diets, new technologies will soon make them irrelevant. Before long, most of our food will come neither from animals nor plants, but from unicellular life.

In my own life, I believe it was an early education in poetical metaphor that helped me to grapple with and make sense of all the difficult and traumatic things that were to come.

I like simple food, seasoned with just salt, pepper, oil and vinegar. Complicated food and complicated lives are never good.

In Africa, those who have money - businessmen and banks - do not believe in film.