Brick and mortar businesses - and the communities that depend on them - cannot continue to bear an unfair sales tax burden from which their on-line competitors are effectively exempt.

The national debate on Social Security has been cheapened by demagoguery on all sides.

What passes for real debate in Washington often seems more like an echo chamber, with politicians talking at politicians.

Its hard to exaggerate the importance of preserving the financial integrity of Social Security.

Uncollected sales taxes on Internet purchases cost the states more than $16 billion in 2001.

This is a chance for me to listen and learn. There's no more important and rewarding part of my job.

Life’s opportunities are meant to be utilized and explored

You are my light when i'm in the dark

If you do not give the tenth part to God, he will take the nine parts.

Discernment: Corruption's worst enemy.

Is there not a way by which the man who can think can be enabled to have time to think?

[While] the primary responsibility, as we all acknowledge, (falls) with the family, ... Our homes, our families, our children's minds are being flooded by a tide of violence.

When the slugs penetrate, you feel a burning sensation, Gettin closer to God in a tight situation.

Perhaps the gods are kind to us, by making life more disagreeable as we grow older. In the end death seems less intolerable than the manifold burdens we carry

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.

Christians need never be sick, any more than they need to be sinful. It is always God's desire to heal you.