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

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

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.

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.

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.

The true measure of a best friend is where they are when you “make” the biggest decision of your life, not where they were during the decision process.

We can't give a child a natural consequence. The only truly natural consequences are the ones found in nature.

When the word is heard consult the source, and beware the messenger.

The responsibility for change...lies within us. We must begin with ourselves, teaching ourselves not to close our minds prematurely to the novel, the surprising, the seemingly radical.

The sun doesn't lose its beauty when covered by the clouds. The same way your beauty doesn't fade when being covered by Hijab

In basketball, you can be the greatest individual player in the world and still lose every game, because a team will always beat an individual.

So long as one person remembers you, you'll never really be dead.

When faced by any loss, there’s no point in trying to recover what has been, it’s best to take advantage of the large space that opens up before us and fill it with something new.

Preparing food is not just about yourself and others. It is about everything!