I have a Christian worldview and so it shapes the way that I view issues. I don't apologize for that, and I don't think people of faith ought to shrink away from being in the public arena.

I just think we need more accountability and more transparency.

There is a battle to be waged over what kind of country we are going to leave our children and grandchildren and that battle is happening now in Washington, not two years from now.

Social Security is an extremely complicated program.

I don't happen to subscribe to the notion that everybody who criticizes Tom Daschle is criticizing Tim Johnson. I think that's a bit of a stretch.

I say to my colleague from New York that if someone who has a concealed carry permit... in the State of South Dakota that goes to New York and is in Central Park - Central Park is a much safer place.

Let's not dismiss or attack individual ideas as being inadequate before we have had a chance to assess their positive effect as part of a whole solution.

The Obama experiment has failed.

But what shouldn't happen is, you shouldn't have the taxpayers from states that are managing their situations well paying for those states that are not.

I think the thing with Medicare - and a lot of this - I should say, with Medicaid - and this is going to depend - states are going to be in a position to have a lot of flexibility.

I tell people it's like shopping for a car.People are taking candidates out for a test drive, seeing what they like.

Turn your situation over to God because He can do more in a moment than you can do in a lifetime. – Joyce Meyer

The fear of death is the fear of the end of an illusion; so long as the illusion persists so long will the fear remain.

Prayer is less about changing the world than it is about changing ourselves.

So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.

I’d rather lose myself in passion than lose my passion.

The thing I thought about doing it was it's Comic Relief and you've got to be funny. So although I did try to sing properly it obviously has hilarious results when you can't sing.

Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.

You brought me grenades. You are officially the best girlfriend ever.

I'm a guitarist by background. That's what I used to do for sessions when I was younger and that sort of thing. We have several pianos in the house and I tend to just sit and fiddle around.

I'm a born-again Christian, but that's not the coat that I wear. It's just how my heart's been changed.