Congress needs strong parties, but it also needs the capacity to deal with budget and entitlement challenges that are likely beyond the reach of pure partisan exertion.

I believe we must seek God's will, never presuming to identify it with our own program or power.

The impending teacher shortage is the most critical education issue we will face in the next decade.

I'm a very competitive person, whether it's school, baseball or even playing video games.

I am struck by the fact that personal faith and political agendas are intertwined more closely now than at any other time in recent history.

Unified party control of the organs of government has proved no panacea.

I have also come to understand Congress' need for a bipartisan as well as a partisan capacity.

What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.

I believe in a fight between me & Wilder... I can come out on top

Goodness knows the Republican electorate is a pretty narrow slice of the population.

Personal faith can be a powerful force for public good.

I just don't have a tremendously strong belief that relationships can work. I'm really quite convinced that they don't. And if they do, it's really quite terribly brief and sporadic.

Life is easy. Just stay un-dead.

You should have gone yourself, you ask for a Coke and they come back with orange drink. No one understands the martyrdom of the volunteers for the trip to food concession.

I remember telling my classmates when I was 8-years-old that (being a sportscaster) is what I wanted to do. That was the only thing I ever wanted to do with my life.

A refrigerator runs by converting the dust behind it into a peculiar mutant, reptilian substance.

I got married because it was the right time and the right thing to do.

What is life, but one long risk?

It takes a long time to publish a book.

You have only so many chances to tell stories. I didn't want to be forever wedded to one form of storytelling when there are so many out there.

When it seems that something can't be done, start it, and see if the rest of it can be done.