I may have been the only candidate in America who failed to ride the wave of anti-establishment anger to victory.

An ignorant person with a bad character is like an unarmed robber, but a learned person with a blog is a robber fully armed

My father was not a political animal.

I know I have the mental capacity of a thousand bloggers, but because of that, my obligation to serve God is also that of a thousand bloggers

Do we really want a society in which the stigma of going on the dole has been erased?

I've often been accused of spending more time and energy criticizing my fellow Democrats than criticizing Republicans.

People have to eat and it's good to have a last-resort dole they can turn to.

I'm not anti-immigration.

Do Obama and Boxer realize they are on the wrong side of a tsunami of voter discontent with a government run by and for the public employee unions?

I don't have any particular beef with Barbara Boxer. My beef is with the official Democratic doctrine that anybody who reaches Boxer's position has to spout and has to endorse.

Ezra Klein gets under my skin. He seems to spout the party line.

Nothing about these times makes any sense. Nothing. Putting it to words only makes it sound too simple.

God answers every prayer timely

Adam Sandler is truly brilliant. He plays these goofy characters, but he is a brilliant fellow.

As long as you care as much as I care, you can't be ashamed of anything.

The usefulness of a meeting is in inverse proportion to the attendance.

I can be a rock star with a television show and still have a self-esteem problem. So it's nice to have your dad go, 'Hey Melissa, I'm proud of you - you're doing good.'

So many Christians seek to live the pain-free Christian life. Such a life has no impact.

I was born with a crippled leg. I wore a corrective shoes since I was three years old and I still wear them.

We must now become not just takers from the ocean, but caretakers of it.