I strongly believe that the Second Amendment creates an individual right to possess and use guns for purposes of both hunting and self-defense.

I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you'll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before.

As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race.

There is no liberty without dependency. That is why we should celebrate tax day.

I'll tell you an explanation that I find commonly overrated and speculative in the extreme: the idea that things that succeed in popular culture do that because they hit the temper of the times.

There are some lawyers who think of themselves as basically instruments of whoever their clients are, and they pride themselves on their professional craft

Catholicism is a wide tent in terms of political and legal positions. We could have nine Catholics on the Supreme Court and a great deal of diversity toward the law.

Once we know that people are human and have some Homer Simpson in them, then there's a lot that can be done to manipulate them.

A program that saves young people produces more welfare than one that saves old people.

Somewhat more broadly, I will suggest that animals should be permitted to bring suit, with human beings as their representatives, to prevent violations of current law.

I think a lot of the Trump supporters think that the job situation is not good.

Our heart is made by the love, for the love, and with the love.

He smiled that smile again. How could something so lazy do such busy things to her body?

It may be asked, why there cannot be one and the same path for all? Because He reveals Himself in infinite ways and forms - verily, The One is all of them.

Your success doesn't depend on anybody else but you.

The art of negotiation is perhaps what most deeply distinguishes man from the animals, and it is this art and this will to negotiate that has brought man forward, elevated him beyond the animals.

I'm no one's lap dog, you can't put me on a leash.

But where, after we have made the great decision to leave the security of childhood and move on into the vastness of maturity, does anybody ever feel completely at home?

We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.

Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity.

The axis today is not liberal and conservative, the axis is constructive-destructive.