NASA spent millions of dollars inventing the ball-point pen so they could write in space. The Russians took a pencil.

If people use common sense and their own guiding moral compass, I think they'll generally stay out of trouble.

There is insufficient support for the police and safety and law enforcement, in general, in the city council.

Traditional marriage between a man and a woman has been a cornerstone of our society for generations. If we are going to change that, it ought to be done by the will of the people.

Too often, they play to whatever group is the loudest down at City Hall, and they buy them off, essentially.

Politics is a contact sport.

The liberals are fighting so hard whenever President Bush appoints any federal judges.

The Senate needs 60 votes to pass anything. They have to compromise with liberal Democrats to spend more money. Even though arguably we have control of the Senate, we really don't.

You have to starve the Beast. That's one of the most important things about tax cuts. If you leave the money in Washington, it's going to be spent.

We've passed an energy bill in the House, to help us be less reliant upon foreign oil so we can get gas prices down. But nothing happens in the Senate.

There's so much mudslinging going on, and people get so turned off by that. It seems like neither party is aware of that. They're too concerned with blasting each other.

Please don't ask me to remember things that are going on around me... I have a dozen other lives I do that for every day in my head.

Minds with fixed ideas are like granite: They can never be penetrated with soft words and gentle persuasions.

It is socialism. It moves the country in a direction which is not good for anyone, whether they be young or old. It charts a course from which there will be no turning back.

I'd have liked to have leant against walls in thrillers.

Often pagans, with their eyes wide open, do not see very clearly.

I have three desks. One empty for paperwork, one for the internet and email, and one for the writing computer.

We must wave our banners even higher and belt out our voices even stronger and be unified as people. We're going to make it through this!

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

Do not think that your crying and complaints can force Jesus to become sentimental and then give Himself out so cheaply.

You can't deny what you've learned; you can't deny your travels; you can't deny the nature of your life.