If anyone tells you that you cannot legislate morality, remeber that legislation IS morality.

Conservatives should question how the death penalty actually works in order to stay true to small government, reduction in wasteful spending, and respect for human life.

In short, ISIS is composed of religiously motivated psychopaths.

The vote by the Judiciary Committee reflects the fact that John Roberts is an exceptional nominee with a conservative judicial philosophy - a philosophy that represents mainstream America.

Our public schools began as ministries of the church; now it is time to return them to the Lord.

You are the first President to whom the opportunity was ever offered constitutionally to inaugurate such a day. If you fail us now, you may be the last.

The Pledge clearly acknowledges the fact that our freedoms in this country come from God, not government.

Even though our society is increasingly pluralistic, we must ensure an equal playing field rather than a religiously cleansed arena where people of faith are no longer welcome.

As I read, my suspicion that Jesus might really be the Messiah was confirmed.

So we need the same strategy, we need young, aggressive judges to be appointed, and that's what the President has done, but getting them through is the challenge.

If you look at Griswold, what you can see is the first time the Court recognized the right to privacy, which ends up becoming ultimately the right to abortion.

Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.

Different creeds are but different paths to reach the same God.

Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Republican leadership.

30 Rock' is my favorite TV show and Tina Fey is one of my heroes. She was a dream to work with and the whole cast was just absolutely lovely.

I'm nothing if not an optimist.

Even if you find him. Even if he didn’t leave you on purpose, he can’t possibly live up to the person you’ve built him into.

I'm happy not knowing. Most of the time (except when I'm a neurotic mess about uncertainty) I feel glad that the horizon is a mystery.

A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me.

In the Christianity of Christendom the Cross has become something like the child’s hobby-horse and trumpet.