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I was very happy being a secretary. I loved working for the government. I was very happy with my life.

Getting elected Governor of New Mexico, I really did enjoy that job. I thought I made a really big difference, and I think the same running for president of the United States - that I could make a really big, positive difference.

Teaching was the most pleasant thing I did.

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

I'm humbled to follow in the footsteps of Ed Feulner, who built the most important conservative institution in the nation. He has been a friend and mentor for years and I am honored to carry on his legacy of fighting for freedom.

I wouldn't be happy had I only been a teacher, if all I had done was help young people, frankly. I don't get nearly the joy teaching as I do out of creation.

I saw the prospect of serving as labor secretary as a wonderful opportunity to further the policies that I have been fighting for my whole life, and I had to seize it.

As Governor of North Carolina for two terms, I made improving education a top priority.

I was very happy and honored to create the Professor Garfield Foundation with Ball State to make reading fun.

I concentrated on a lot of things, so very few people saw me as an education governor, an infrastructure governor.