For faithful Catholics, communion is not just a nice ritual: It is the body and blood of Jesus Christ, and the ultimate sign of our willingness to be incorporated into the church.

The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.

In Europe, it appears that in the name of democracy, elites are pursuing an autocratic, centralized power, seeking economic control and social regimentation.

Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason, and those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.

Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.

Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.

Oregon is the only state in the union that facilitates suicide.

To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.

Getting married is the boldest and most idealistic thing that most of us will ever do.

When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.

Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified.

Beauty is the worst kind of lie.

Out of respect, a man must veil his words when talking with a woman, but with a man he can frankly say whatever's on his mind.

Maybe one of the strangest opportunities was I got to ring the closing bell on the New York Stock Exchange.

Unless we do his teachings, we do not demonstrate faith in him.

Speak of a wolf and you see his tail!

Being a cab river is not unlike being a magician--minus the top hat, the cape, the rabbit, an the gorgeous assistant. But you do have an audience.

On first listening, Joni Mitchell's 'Court And Spark,' the first truly great pop album of 1974, sounds surprisingly light; by the third or fourth listening, it reveals its underlying tensions.

If I'm not learning from something that I'm doing, then that means I've done it before. Do something different, even if it's within the same medium.

My M.O. over the years is that I make things better, where people give me that freedom.

I am perfectly happy to compromise whether it's with Democrats or anybody else, as long as we're reducing the size of government.