Almost always, executive orders are within an authority and always within the purview of Congress to change if they want to legislatively change it.

Race to race, the Republicans are putting up candidates that are quite far out of the mainstream in terms of should we have passed the Civil Rights Act or does Social Security need to exist.

If faith is your motivation, share that.

Most evil in the world is only partly because of an evil person. Most of it is because of the complicity of bystanders.

I think life is sacred, whether it's abortion or the death penalty.

No couples in Virginia can adopt other than a married couple - that's the right policy.

We spend at least $5 for remedial education right now for every dollar we put in early childhood education. All the studies on early childhood education show this is going to pay for itself.

Matters about reproduction and intimacy and relationships and contraception are in the personal realm. They're moral decisions for individuals to make for themselves.

I'm not going to give a courtesy gift to a person who's going to win, and I'm not going to give a sympathy gift to a person who's going to lose.

If you want to have a society where people are respected and respect laws, you can't have somebody at the top who demeans every group that he talks about.

I think if you run away from who you are, that you're a Democrat and you're proud to be a Democrat, it's foolish. And the reason it's foolish is you've got a lot to be proud of.

What is the value of money if you have no time?

It's a lot about the individual and it's really up to you, how much you dedicate to the fight and how hard you are working and that's where the outcome will come.

I'm really good at gymnastics, and that's about it.

The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.

Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft.

That woman in the shampoo commercial - she's happy. She's... she's too happy.

The days have never been long enough to do the things I would like to do. Every year has held more of interest than the year before.

Lying on top of a building, the clouds looked no nearer than when I was lying on the street.

Every person has the latent ability to read minds and influence the physical world without touching it, but they don't have the ability to connect with the power source.

I'm not the type of person to act one way in front of the camera and another when it's off. What you see is what you get.