It's great to know that I have people in Peoria that embrace me and support me throughout my career.

I very likely would not be in this position had I not been working with her and had her support. Same thing with my family. They were all able to enjoy this whole experience with me.

President Clinton is enormously popular and obviously we are gratified to have the support of people who were and are close to him. Bill Clinton found a path to the White House and did it starting in New Hampshire, and we'd like to emulate that.

I don't think I ever felt like the forgotten man. If anything, I felt self-exiled.

The new system is changing the way you run through a program.

You can't usually fall twice and still make an Olympic team. Until I went down, though, I'd been doing very well. I just told myself that one mistake probably wouldn't beat me.