However, we might oppose it, abortion is a sad feature of modern life.

A 1990 Gallup poll found that 77 percent of Americans polled said abortion was the taking of human life. I agree, and believe that taking the life on an innocent child is unjust.

Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.

Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty.

Tolerance is the price we pay for living in a free, pluralistic society.

Whose rights will we acknowledge? Whose human dignity will we respect? For whose well-being will we, as a people, assume responsibility?

The abortion license has not brought freedom and security to women. Rather, it has ushered in a new era of irresponsibility toward women and children, one that now begins before birth.

Any man who has ever tried to use political power for the common good has felt an awful sense of powerlessness.

Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.

A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.

If you had started doing anything two weeks ago, by today you would have been two weeks better at it.

Every moment, every second, every hour and every day, be in love by becoming love. There is nothing else.

It is a common remark that men talk most who think least; just as frogs cease their quacking when a light is brought to the water-side.

This is just one little part of who I am, and I'm not gonna let my sexuality define or confine me. It's part of me, it's not all of me.

I say this as the president of the country which has suffered more deaths, more blood and more sacrifices in this war.

I'd like to learn how to cook. I've hauled around this big, old, heavy Martha Stewart cookbook in my suitcase to Cape Cod, L.A., Paris. I don't know what possessed me.

Selfishness comes from poverty in the heart, from the belief that love is not abundant.

What use is it to endure the Dutch Rubs and Indian Rope Burns that are politics if you can't obtain mastery over people and give them noogies back?

I love narrative and sometimes I feel frustrated with stand-up.