My uncle was a cop, a career cop, on the beat in downtown Chicago. He was my hero when I was growing up.

I'm a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order.

I - do I believe in evolution? I embrace the view that God created the heavens and the earth, the seas and all that's in them.

Human cloning is coming.

While that amendment failed, human cloning continues to advance and the breakthrough in this unethical and morally questionable science is around the corner.

This isn't the old days where you can just say stuff and people will believe it.

I want to be very clear - there will be no path to legalization.

Power is an instrument of fatal consequence. It is confined no more readily than quicksilver, and escapes good intentions as easily as air flows through mesh.

Adult stem cell research has produced some 67 medical miracles.

I never thought I'd live to see the day that an American administration would denounce the state of Israel for rebuilding Jerusalem.

I long for the day that "Roe v. Wade" is sent to the ash heap of history.

You cannot save people from themselves. All you can do is stand firmly in your hopes for them, with compassion.

I am here, come closer, ” the old donkey said with her eyes. “I will mother you.

Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.

None of us can avoid being contaminated by the world's evils; it's all a matter of what attitude you take towards them.

It is important not to allow ourselves to be put off by the magnitude of others' suffering. The misery of millions is not a cause for pity. Rather it is a cause for compassion.

The supposition that the future resembles the past, is not founded on arguments of any kind, but is derived entirely from habit.

When we understand the needs that motivate our own and others behavior, we have no enemies.

What I really do is take real plums and put them in an imaginary cake. If you're interested in the cake, you get rather annoyed with people saying what species the real plum was.

No one may pride himself at being more than an individual, and no one despondently think that he is not an individual.

How quickly nature falls into revolt When gold becomes her object! For this the foolish over-careful fathers Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains with care, Their bones with industry.