"I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate to have had adults all around me who really lived their faith, in helping other people and doing the best you can do."

"I'm sure I am impatient sometimes. I sure do get angry sometimes. I think it's outrageous how hard it is to get this country to feed its children and to take care of its children, to give them a decent education."

"Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am."

"Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree."

"Leadership is not a title, it is the realization that courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it."

"To conquer fear is to realize that character is forged in the fires of discipline."

"There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease."

"I more fear what is within me than what comes from without."