The average American is more focused on leadership than likeability. And more focused on qualifications than quality of speakership.

My children are 12, 12, 8, and 7, which is bad idea, bad idea, bad idea, bad idea, for mom going inside.

I went out on my own, years ago, to try to create some additional choices in a parallel universe.

Donald Trump just has always elevated women to the highest echelons.

I never knew I was so stupid or so ugly until there was social media.

Do you think I ran a campaign where white supremacists had a platform? Are you gonna look me in the face and tell me that?

We know there are lots of leaks everywhere. There's nothing we can do about that, except not leak ourselves.

I want to talk about things that are quantifiable, not a bunch of metro riders and crowd sizes.

Usually based on an economic agenda, white working-class voters don't buy into this whole biology-chemistry-abortion-gender agenda as much as they want more take-home pay. They want affordability.

When I see Twitter feeds, when I see words that are people are using to describe Donald Trump, it is incredibly disrespectful to the office.

Hold us accountable. There's no accountability in Washington. Drain the swamp.

I was excited to do something, even if I didn't know what it was. I think you need that feeling—that excitement, that fire—to make your dreams a reality. (p.59)

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

Morality is not a large, constructed *thing* you have or have not, but simply a capacity. Something you carry with you in your brain and in your hands.

Pain is the best instructor, but no one wants to go to his class.

A philosophical mythology lies concealed in language, which breaks out again at every moment, no matter how cautious we may be.

Unconfessed sin is a terrible, heavy burden to carry. God loves us too much to have unconfessed sin.

He who seeks eternity should look at the sky, he who seeks the moment, should look at the cloud.

About all you can do in life is be who you are.

Almost anything carried to a logical extreme becomes depressing.

Usually it is the stereotyped shape assumed by an event at an obvious place that uncovers the run of the news.