“I thought if anyone need a leg up, it was our foster children. So, I started getting involved in education reform, and that was back in 1998. And as a result of all the reform work that I had done, people urged me to run for the Minnesota state Senate. I did, I was there for six years.”

“I don't know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer. Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago.”