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.

My parents met in music school, and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing.

I think as a child you know when it's time for your parents to split. You realise they love each other, but they're not in love with each other. And I think as a child it's much better for your parents to split than for them to stay and have dysfunction within the family.

I don't love the phrase 'balancing work and family.' It sets up this idea of scales of justice with work on one side and family on the other side.

Unlike my mother, who was unashamedly delighted when I decided to become an actor, I always feel that my father, had he lived longer, might have been a touch disapproving of some of my career - I think he might have tutted a bit at 'Men Behaving Badly.'