These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform I believe that we must focus on graduation as the key accountability measure.

I think women as well as men are concerned about jobs and the economy and spending and and other issues. They're concerned that when their kids graduate from college they have an economy and they have a future in this country and they they have the same opportunity that we've had and our grandparents have had.

Remember half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.

ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so one could blame the companies but really economically they have no incentive to change things very much because they're getting the business.

I was never a Certified Public Accountant. I just had a degree in accounting. It would require passing a test which I would not have been able to do.

I decided to run for governor because I got mad... I want to make government more directly accountable to the people.

I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all we encounter it every day.

Using these unnamed sources if done properly carefully and fairly provides more accountability in government.

Are we still a country that takes risks that innovates that believes anything is possible? Or are we a country that is resigned to whatever liberty the government decides to dish out?

I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services.

I think people are confused about what the Tea Party is. I mean they were a broad cross-section of Americans who came together concerned about our debt and our spending. And they're interested in constitutional limited government. And so they're not one group of people. They're thousands of small groups all over the country.

It's counterintuitive but the most divisive arrangement is when the same party controls both Congress and the presidency a situation encountered in eight of the past 10 years. With government unified under a single party the minority has the least possible incentive to cooperate with the majority.

There is a Western world. There is America. There is Great Britain and Germany and France and Russia and China and other nations. I doubt that there is one country amongst those I mentioned which has a desire to see Iran with its fundamentalist Islamic extremist government possessing nuclear weapons.

And I just think that we're at a point in our economic life here in our state - and - and candidly across the country where increased taxes is just the wrong way to go. The people of our state are not convinced that state government county government local government has done all they can with the money we already give them rather than the money that we have before.

My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country the supremacy of the Federal government an honorable peace or none at all.