A republic - if you can keep it - is about limitation, and for good reason, because we are mortal and our actions are imperfect.

I'm a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order.

I - do I believe in evolution? I embrace the view that God created the heavens and the earth, the seas and all that's in them.

Human cloning is coming.

While that amendment failed, human cloning continues to advance and the breakthrough in this unethical and morally questionable science is around the corner.

This isn't the old days where you can just say stuff and people will believe it.

I want to be very clear - there will be no path to legalization.

Power is an instrument of fatal consequence. It is confined no more readily than quicksilver, and escapes good intentions as easily as air flows through mesh.

Adult stem cell research has produced some 67 medical miracles.

I never thought I'd live to see the day that an American administration would denounce the state of Israel for rebuilding Jerusalem.

I long for the day that "Roe v. Wade" is sent to the ash heap of history.

Talk is free but the wise man chooses when to spend his words.

Storytelling was the most honored of all talents, for it benefited everyone.

Someone who seeks to travel the path of Allah should begin with a sound repentance from all his sins.

The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.

If you genuinely want something, don't wait for it -- teach yourself to be impatient.

A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.

I can always tell if someone's from Harvard because they trot out their vitae. I would die at Harvard.

Poetry and I fit together. I can't imagine being without it... It is food and drink, it is all seasons, it is the stuff of all existence.

Laws are like sausages. You sleep far better the less you know about how they are made.

I don't relax. I sit down and contemplate all the energetic things I should do.