Opening markets abroad through trade agreements is especially important for American small businesses and manufacturers to enhance growth and job creation.

Reducing health care costs for families requires increased competition in health insurance.

Just like American families, government agencies need to start doing more with less, and the Internal Revenue Service is no exception.

We need to make sure people continue to have access to retirement plans because everyone deserves the opportunity to retire with dignity and financial independence.

My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters.

My parents were definitely on the incentive side of parenting. Like, they told me that my father had learned to read when he was three. So, of course, I thought I had to, too.

Women in general, we tend to shrink ourselves and not have as much confidence as we should in presenting ourselves and our body types. It's OK to be fit and healthy and comfortable within your body, whatever frame you have.

I don't sign autographs when I'm out for a meal or out with my kids. I think that's rude and disrespectful. I would never ask anyone for an autograph while they were eating dinner; that's what I was taught by my parents.