"I'm not driven to get back into politics. It's not on my top five things to do before I die, but saying that, I may be in politics in the next year or the next ten years. I've been on the front line for 12 years, four in state government, eight on the national level."

"Some might think that George W. Bush had his shortcomings, but let me tell you something - history's going to be kind to George W. Bush."

"I think in politics, in Congress, you often do things that are Republican, or you do things because you're a Democrat. Sometimes that's good, obviously, and sometimes that's obviously bad. But in the news business, there's no such thing as Republican or Democratic news. News is news."

"In addition, there is one title I cherish a great deal more than Congressman and that is the title of... Dad."

"I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business."

"Humility is not weakness in leadership; it is the cornerstone of unassailable respect. Such is the immutable nature of understanding — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The river of time washes away kings and empires, leaving only virtue intact — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"In the tapestry of human existence, every trial adds depth to the design. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history — an essential principle for the reflective life."