When businesses go through hard times, through down markets, what do they do is they challenge every basic assumption of how they operate. They innovate. They create disruption for a while that leads them to even greater heights when the economy turns around.

Life teaches you that you need to make decisions in the right time - not too early, not too late.

If you have to deal with our friends at ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, it's like a Kafka novel. Files just disappear.

You have to remember that in a state like Florida, independent voters will decide the election.

If you believe, like I do, that the world is abundant with possibilities, then we need to make sure we build capacity so that everybody is successful or can be successful in the pursuit of their dreams - not the dreams of someone from government, but their own dreams.

Leaders lead. They don't divide; they don't create a climate that is poisonous.

Everything's viewed with a political lens in Washington, and that's just the nature of the beast, and it is what it is.

Teachers make a difference, and we would serve our students better by focusing on attracting and retaining the quality teachers by raising teacher pay.

If you had to pick the values that would be held dear to a broad number of Hispanic voters, access to opportunity would be a higher value than guarantee of security, particularly amongst the newly arrived, meaning the last 20 years.

If I'm a conservative, I'll generally watch Fox. If someone's liberal, they'll generally watch MSNBC. They'll basically learn a set of facts that are completely distinct from one another. They'll get their views validated.

A four percent growth strategy means you fix a convoluted tax code. You get in and you change every aspect of regulations that are job killers. You get rid of Obamacare and replace it with something that doesn't suppress wages and kill jobs.

I have never wavered from my intention to advance the cause of diversity in new and more effective ways.

I reject the notion that a high turnout helps Senator Kerry. I think in Florida at least, it's going to help President Bush because we have gotten more registered voters than the Democrats, and our base is just fired up - thanks to your help and a lot of others.

I'm getting nervous to be called a centrist. Breaking out in a rash.

If we don't empower families to be able to have a quality education, then their children - for the first time in American history, truly the first time - will not have the same economic opportunities.

Public education must be viewed from the lens of providing each child with the learning environment that best meets his or her needs. If we can send a low-income child to a parochial school, knowing that his odds of attending college will increase as a result, then that should be our mission.

I was blessed to have a mother and father that recognized the value of education.

There's a fine line between stubbornness and the positive side of that, which is dogged determination.

And we should be a welcoming nation. Our identity is not based on race or ethnicity, it's based on a set of shared values. That's American citizenship.

Treating people fairly and with civility is not a bad thing... It would be good for our country if political leaders actually took that to heart.

You focus on the things that you can control, and that's what I'm doing.

I've been so blessed to be part of a family that has dedicated its life to public service.

Not everyone who goes to Washington becomes Washington.

Campaigning ain't tough.