If the minority is able to successfully undo the Affordable Care Act by blackmail, it will be the undoing of the democratic nature of our government.

The forces that have worked hard to stoke populist anger against reform are the very ones that benefit from a health system which puts profits ahead of quality care for its patients.

If the flag needs protection at all, it needs protection from members of Congress who value the symbol more than the freedoms that the flag represents.

Torture fails to make us safe, but it certainly makes us less free.

Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civilized nations.

Government by blackmail is incompatible with democracy.

Thousands die each year because they are uninsured or under-insured.

We do not need torture as an available instrument of interrogation.

While the notion that torture works has been glorified in television shows and movies, the simple truth is this: torture has never been an effective interrogation method.

It is not the role of Congress to decide legal cases between private parties. That is why we have courts.

With Jehovah- Jireh, life is a joyful journey.

If you stop being judgemental

Like my mother, I was always saying, 'I'll fix my life one day.' It became clear when I saw her die without fulfilling her dreams that my time was now or maybe never.

Not to be occupied with your sin, but to be occupied with God brings deliverance from self.

My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way

You may strive to be like them but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

Where they come from matters. They're products of particular places and environments.

Whatever happens, never happens by itself.

I love watching reality TV, but being part of making it was just demoralizing.

My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.