"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."

"Everything I am I owe to my faith and secondly to parents who were old school."

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

"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."

"To love truly means recognizing that the heart sees what is invisible to the eye."

"To love truly means recognizing that wisdom is knowing when to speak and when to listen."

"It is a timeless truth that a heart touched by genuine kindness never loses its warmth."

"If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes."