W. Todd Akin: “You know, I think about it. God made all of these different people, and all of us are different. And from the day that…”

“You know, I think about it. God made all of these different people, and all of us are different. And from the day that you grow up as a little kid you start thinking about stuff that you'd like to do, whether you want to be a fireman or a doctor or an Indian chief, you know, people kind of talk about that. And you never really know for most people, they don't really know where their life is going to go, what they're going to achieve or accomplish. But there's something inside human nature that has this idea once you start to get the idea that you can dream and do something cool. So people have these crazy ideas. And America was full of these crazy people and all of these crazy ideas. They didn't know the ideas were impossible, and they kept trying and trying, and finally the idea becomes maybe vaguely possible and then pretty soon, it actually happens. You take the crazy guy who built lightbulbs. What'd he build, a hundred, two or three hundred lightbulbs? And somebody said, Boy, you've got to be discouraged, Thomas Edison. He said, No, I've got a couple hundred ways not to make lightbulbs. So I'm even closer to the right solution. So America, if you think about it, this great country was built one dream at a time by all these people.”