The impending teacher shortage is the most critical education issue we will face in the next decade.

I believe we must seek God's will, never presuming to identify it with our own program or power.

Congress needs strong parties, but it also needs the capacity to deal with budget and entitlement challenges that are likely beyond the reach of pure partisan exertion.

I'm a very competitive person, whether it's school, baseball or even playing video games.

I am struck by the fact that personal faith and political agendas are intertwined more closely now than at any other time in recent history.

Unified party control of the organs of government has proved no panacea.

I have also come to understand Congress' need for a bipartisan as well as a partisan capacity.

What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.

I believe in a fight between me & Wilder... I can come out on top

Goodness knows the Republican electorate is a pretty narrow slice of the population.

Personal faith can be a powerful force for public good.

I think the attempt to defend belief can unsettle it, in fact, because there is always an inadequacy in argument about ultimate things.

Love is thicker than blood

God put us here to prepare this place for the next generation. That's our job. Raising children and helping the community, that's preparing for the next generation.

Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.

To the girls that gave me a hard time in high school. I want to say thank you. This is a victory for all the nerds out there.

I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles.

You should expect everything. Not necessarily through the government, the governments are not the only player in [Middle East] region.

Concrete is heavy; iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.

Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.

My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian.