A billion dollars every week for Iraq, $87 billion for Iraq. We can't get $5 billion for childcare over five years in welfare reform.

The best response to bad religion is better religion, not secularism.

We can find common ground only by moving to higher ground.

Sometimes it takes a natural disaster to reveal a social disaster.

Our calling is not only to pull people out of the river, but to go upstream to find out what or who is pushing them in.

Faith reminds us that change is always possible.

Anyone can love peace, but Jesus didn't say, "Blessed are the peace-lovers." He says �peacemakers.� He is referring to a life vocation, not a hobby on the sidelines of life.

The Christian doctrine is one that is both about individual spirituality and a parallel commitment to social justice.

Hope is believing in spite of the evidence, and then watching the evidence change.

What is my calling? What am I supposed to do? I think running for office, public office, can be a divine calling. I mean, Ive wrestled with that very question myself.

The world will not change until we do

Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.

Wake up so your dreams can become reality.

The crop always seems better in our neighbor's field and our neighbor's cow gives more milk.

I cry out for order and find it only in art.

I don't sit around and study the pages of a script over and over again.

The best diplomacy starts with getting to know each other.

I sit beside the fire and think of people long ago, and of people who will see a world that I shall never know.

I have a fear of heights and I'm claustrophobic.

Couple in the next room bound to win a prize, they've been going at it all night long.

Mental rehab is way tougher than the physical part... [You think] I'm tired of doing the same thing [exercising] all day. It's tough, but you've got to overcome it.