I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.

I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools.

With my ministry of light, part of what I do is work on the California Alliance For Arts Education.

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'm not only a lawyer, I have a post doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I work in serious scholarship and work in the United States federal tax court. My husband and I raised five kids. We've raised 23 foster children. We've applied ourselves to education reform. We started a charter school for at-risk kids.

As a former high school teacher, I know that investing in education is one of the most important things we can do, not only for our children, but for the benefit of our whole community.

It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.

I learned a lot from that first record and I learned a lot from my experiences touring, but really the biggest education I got over the past two years was learning the importance of arrangements.

I went to drama school for four years at Carnegie Mellon, conservatory training before television comedy. I was doing Shakespeare and Chekov plays. It's about delivering on the promise of a $100,000 education and taking the shackles off and trying the hand at my craft. I'm thrilled with what I've seen so far.

The best math lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and benefit from the dividends of higher education.