This is a free country, and nobody should be criticized for their political beliefs. We're all allowed to have our opinions.

Of course, my own political beliefs inform the ideas I come up with.

Everyone's entitled to express their political beliefs. I don't presume to tell anybody who to vote for. I am comfortable telling people what my opinions are.

I also learned that a person was not necessarily bad just because you did not agree with him, and that if you believed in something, you had better be prepared to defend it.

As Governor, I could think of only one way to unify our State that was made up of so many different climates, political beliefs and people, and that was our music.

Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.