Americans need to worry about whether Trump will be watching out for America's bottom line or his own bottom line.

Race to race, the Republicans are putting up candidates that are quite far out of the mainstream in terms of should we have passed the Civil Rights Act or does Social Security need to exist.

If faith is your motivation, share that.

Most evil in the world is only partly because of an evil person. Most of it is because of the complicity of bystanders.

I think life is sacred, whether it's abortion or the death penalty.

No couples in Virginia can adopt other than a married couple - that's the right policy.

We spend at least $5 for remedial education right now for every dollar we put in early childhood education. All the studies on early childhood education show this is going to pay for itself.

Matters about reproduction and intimacy and relationships and contraception are in the personal realm. They're moral decisions for individuals to make for themselves.

I'm not going to give a courtesy gift to a person who's going to win, and I'm not going to give a sympathy gift to a person who's going to lose.

If you want to have a society where people are respected and respect laws, you can't have somebody at the top who demeans every group that he talks about.

I think if you run away from who you are, that you're a Democrat and you're proud to be a Democrat, it's foolish. And the reason it's foolish is you've got a lot to be proud of.

In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.

I'll believe it if I see it" for dogs translates to "I'll believe it if I smell it." So don't bother yelling at them; it's the energy and scent they pay attention to, not your words.

Sparkling and bright in liquid light Does the wine our goblets gleam in; With hue as red as the rosy bed Which a bee would choose to dream in.

War is not only a matter of equipment, artillery, group troops or air force; it is largely a matter of spirit, or morale.

Creating opportunities means looking where others are not.

Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.

poetry is first of all a way of life and only secondarily a way of writing.

What in life can love not penetrate?

Humor is a reminder that no matter how high the throne one sits on, one sits on one's bottom.