You can learn a little bit from everybody, so you should be able to work a bit with everybody.

Every time I would give a talk, someone would say, 'You ought to go into politics.' I prefer to call it government leadership. My life has taken me to places where I have experiences that I think I can share. A lot of times, we see people who are career politicians. I'm not the conventional candidate, nor do I want to be.

I am the first podiatrist to serve in the U.S. Congress.