You realize that for all the shenanigans that go on in the big circus of politics, everybody wakes up and goes to work.

Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

I was in elective politics for 24 years. I've made four national races, two for President, two for Vice President. I have found there are other ways to serve, and I'm enjoying them.

One of the big changes in politics has been because families, individuals, have felt worried, insecure... worried about the economy, worried about their jobs, worried about their kids' futures... actually the disconnect between the public and media discourse and people's everyday concerns has become bigger not smaller.

We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.