lack of food, or famine, is national security.

I mean, the stark difference of this is the difference between day and night where you have one person, Qadhafi, who was ready then to say, okay, fine, we are going to give into this.

I don't believe you can ever have an agreement with anybody unless both parties agree that they want to get to a common end.

If there are no consequences for bad behavior, and they have already violated this agreement, why in the world would they suddenly say, you know what, I think we will start going along with the intent of what was trying to be done.

It is absolutely false. The wound may heal, but it leaves a deep scar that is there forever.

the way out of poverty is education, but education for something that actually gets you to where you need to go

the return on taxpayer investment is what we are concerned about, and that it is fair.

While I was home in the district in August, I visited all 22 counties which I have, and I visited lenders, bankers, credit unions.

I think, as referenced earlier, that we have seen significant improvements in the education field, based predominantly on some flexibility and the ability to create individual progress plans for people.

You always have to start with where they are.

So we need outcome measures, clearly-defined outcome measures, but not without enough flexibility to help the individual needs of the people involved.