Anyone who has ever asked for directions knows you need two crucial pieces of information to get good results: a starting point and a destination.

Protection of religious freedom means considering the faiths and beliefs of everyone involved.

Our Founding Fathers drafted the Bill of Rights to ensure that We the People could determine how best to protect our communities.

I am committed to working towards a more transparent, accountable, and ethical federal government worthy of the publics trust.

I like to take out the recycling because I actually feel like I'm doing something.

We need to replace hyperbole with a reasonable, informed discussion about how to reinvent the federal budget with more transparency and better accountability.

I introduced the Transparency in Government Act, a multi-faceted transparency bill that would bring unprecedented access and accountability to the federal government.

Too often, advances in civil rights or women's rights are undermined by wrong-headed legislation or weak-kneed political leadership.

I'm a longtime believer in the old adage that sunlight is the best disinfectant, particularly in politics.

I don't want realism. I want magic. I live magic. I am magic.

Excerpt from "The Strength in Knowing"Doubt is the archenemy of the purity of thought and it inhibits theessence of all that is

It doesn't cost anything to be a good person, but yet there are toxic people around us that will try to tax our lives.

Running away is vastly underrated.

My main trick is to work with amazing people. It's a long and twisty journey, and you need people that really are amazing and have this rare gift of honesty and courage and really open up.

An egg white omelet with vegetables is one of my favorite breakfasts.

Prayer is The world in tune, A spirit-voyce, And vocall joyes, Whose Eccho is heaven's blisse.

An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles.

Unfathomable oceans of grace are in Christ for you. Dive and dive again, you will never come to the bottom of these depths.

Women see through each other, but they rarely look into themselves.