We need to take the politics out of it.

We can't wait 15 years to get this done.

I can't thank them enough.

There's a lot of reasons.

If you do politics the right way, I believe, you can actually make people's lives better. And integrity is the minimum ante to get into the game.

My own father had always said the measure of a man wasn't how many times or how hard he got knocked down, but how fast he got back up. I made a pledge to myself that I would get up and emerge from this debacle better for having gone through it. I would live up to the expectation I had for myself. I would be the kind of man I wanted to be.