In the continuing debate over the morality of enhanced interrogation, an essential consideration is often overlooked: intent.

As long as there's land available, single-family homes will be built, and Colorado residents will always go for a single-family over a condo.

I consider the Chinese government's policy among the most intelligent in the world.

As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities.

There's a lot of people out now around America who depend on checks from their fellow taxpayers being in the mailbox every day.

When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America; we are hurting our law-abiding citizens.

I think it would be bizarre to pick somebody to speak at the convention based on their sexual preference, because once you go down that road, why don't you pick a transvestite?

I would prefer every [American] state keep the definition of marriage that's prevailed in Western civilization for a couple thousand years.

I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row.

All the culture war issues will be settled by the court.

When people move from poor countries to America, they quickly adapt in at least one way - their consumption habits.

...But all that power has culminated in gentleness. It is as if that is the point of power: to allow one to access the higher registers of gentleness.

What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet

You don't have to make it big, but you do have to make a big impact.

And not a vanity is given in vain.

For a long time I was lost. My life got a lot better when I stopped thinking about my life and started thinking about my work and the purpose of that work.

I'm interested in reality but I'm not interested in realism at all. I'm interested in the ways that I think people want to relate.

What's the difference between a pickpocket and a peeping tom? A pickpocket snatches watches.

Ye need her as she needs ye....and Inuyasha...DO NOT FORGET WHERE YE BURIED ME!

[S]tand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.

Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.