We are stronger because we recognize that government isn't the sole answer to the most important questions, and we welcome community and faith based organizations as partners to serve the needs of Florida families.
The Common Core State Standards are more rigorous standards than the great majority of states had in place previously.
I'm happy to be helping people that are passionate about empowering parents for student learning.
I'm getting nervous to be called a centrist. Breaking out in a rash.
Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers' unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids.
We had rising student achievement across the board because high standards, robust accountability, ending social promotion in third grade, real school choice across the board, challenging the teachers union and beating them is the way to go.
I don't miss politics.
There should be a path to earned legal status for those that are here. Not - not amnesty - earned legal status, which means you pay a fine and do many things over an extended period of time.
Second-generation Hispanics marry non-Hispanics at a higher rate than second-generation Irish or Italians. Second-generation Hispanics' English language capability rates are higher than previous immigrant groups'.
I have a proven record, a record of accomplishment, a record of cutting taxes, of shrinking the government, of reforming education, of challenging the status quo, eliminating career civil service protections, shrinking the government workforce by 11 percent, but leading the nation in job growth.
I support high academic standards. Period.
If more people were actively engaged in advocating their positions I think we'd have a better society.
There are cultural reasons, economic competitiveness reasons. There are a lot of reasons why people are in poverty. The difference today is that increasingly they are in perpetual poverty.
Apparently there are some Democratic leaders in the Senate that are running for office who now believe in tax cuts.
Candidates are making lasting impressions on voters, not just primary voters, in how they campaign.
I miss being governor.
I never felt comfortable with making political decisions based on whether, you know, it was the right thing to do in terms of a poll.
We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis.
I try to have my voice be heard, but not on a regular basis on TV.
I do a lot of traveling overseas.
