Improving our national intelligence capabilities should remain a top priority and a continual process.

In Arkansas alone, approximately three quarters of a million people are at risk of going hungry, and one in four children does not get enough to eat, so my goal is to bring awareness to this tragic issue.

Voters must have faith in the electoral process for our democracy to succeed.

I am not normally a betting person, but I say that putting your money on the American people is about as close to a sure bet as you are going to get.

I was thinking about the women of Pakistan, those who are not allowed to get education, those who are not allowed to do whatever they want to do in their life. I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.

In the first year in New York, I went to this amazing teacher named Jen Waldman. She does lots of different classes, but one of her classes was where you went and worked on a song. And suddenly I felt like an artist again, and because I had worked the whole song, when I went into the audition room, I could connect to something in the 16 bars.

The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.