The situation has gotten worse and worse over the past 25 years.

I'll be very surprised if (President Bush's recommendation) is successful. This is an election year. Do you think anyone, Republican or Democrat, is going to want to stand up and tell his electorate ... 'We got rid of a program for poor kids'? I don't think so.

The law says that when you give out Perkins loan money, you start with the people who are the poorest and continue backward. It's not much money, but it does go to our neediest students. They would be left hanging without it.

I want to be in the performing arts. This is what I want to do. So this gives me the experience of performing in front of such a huge crowd.

It's a lot of fun, a lot of fun. We meet lots of people. You come out here and there's always this huge crowd at every game. It's a lot of fun.

What you're seeing is a little more balanced attack than we've seen in the past.