Josh Shapiro

And so that woman working behind the counter at Sheetz, her husband and others like it that were depending on that life-saving care continue to get it.

That's what I try and do every day.

Stand up for people, get shit done for people, fight for people, and use government as a force for good in people's lives.

Instead of using government the way Donald Trump does for inflicting chaos and cruelty and a level of corruption unseen before on others, we try and use government as a force for good in people's lives.

Yeah, I read a lot in this book about how I struggle to be the best dad I can be and the best husband I can be.

And look, I don't think you have to be in politics to know that when you've got all these competing challenges every day, a career and other challenges, that you need to find that balance every single day to both be there for your kids

meet your obligations in your career, be there for yourself and your spouse.

And for me, it's just a constant work in progress.

Every day, I feel like I don't strike the right balance, but I feel like each day I do a little bit better than maybe the day before.

And so I talk a lot about the struggles throughout my career of,

picking the right path in my career that would still allow me to be a good dad and a good husband to sort of build on this foundation that Lori, my wife, Lori and I established literally back in the ninth grade, you know, and just wanting to go through life

you know, meeting my obligation of service to others, which is what my mom and dad, my faith have taught me, while also being able to be a good dad and be a good husband at the same time.

And it's a constant struggle I write about in this book.

And I think probably the thing I've struggled most about, you know, and you raised this in your question is, you know, when that person broke in the governor's residence and tried to kill me and tried to burn my family and I to death,

while we slept, I've really had to, and thank God we're okay.

Thank God for the first responders and police officers who kept us safe.

But I've had to struggle in the months since with this idea that doing this thing I love, this service that I love to do, that I feel called to do, that that put my children's lives at risk.

And that's a hard thing to...

you know, sort of grapple with, particularly when you struggle your whole life to find that balance.

Look, I don't know that I'm sharing anything that any other, you know, professional, any other adult, any other parent doesn't go with or grapple with.