This is a chance for me to listen and learn. There's no more important and rewarding part of my job.

Brick and mortar businesses - and the communities that depend on them - cannot continue to bear an unfair sales tax burden from which their on-line competitors are effectively exempt.

The national debate on Social Security has been cheapened by demagoguery on all sides.

It's hard to exaggerate the importance of preserving the financial integrity of Social Security.

I'm blessed because I had my mom as a teacher - sixth through eighth grade - and she is one of the best teachers I've ever had.

In schools giving students a full education, not to create great artists but about the right to have full expression and imagination and creativity, along with an acknowledgement that everybody learns differently. You try and you fail and you try again. All those skills are useful in the workplace, too.

I care about buses and libraries and schools and roads and education.

It was a slow understanding that the lack of education in a country like Somalia creates these huge social problems.