The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College.

In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties.

But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism.

Knowledge of the soul would unfailingly make us melancholy if the pleasures of expression did not keep us alert and of good cheer.

We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way.

Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome.

A healthy degree of party unity among Democrats and Republicans has deteriorated into bitter partisan warfare.

Congress requires states to draw single-member districts.

While Republican voters have remained universally supportive of their President, Democrats and Independents are returning to a more naturally critical stance.

Votes in federal elections are cast and counted in a highly decentralized and variable fashion, with no uniform ballots and few national standards.

If you continue to live in your past after coming to Jesus and accepting Him as Lord and Savior, then you are still a long way from moving forward

Find pleasure in the path, even if the destination can't be foreseen.

I have to admit, insanity is so much fun.

The job of nation building, the job of nation leadership in a difficult, complex coalition has worked.

What I was saved to is much more important than what I was saved from.

One of the reasons intermittent fasting can work is that it reconnects you with what hunger feels like.

The education of life perfects the thinking mind, but depraves the frivolous.

Cujus region, ejus rligio (Whoever's reign, his religion) ... He who owns the country owns the Church, and he that makes your laws for you has the right to make your religion for you.

The Christians to the lions sold out every night.

The only thing we all agree on, virtually every poet in this country, is that this Administration is really frightening, and we want something done about it.