At some level, Trump is more radical than the NRA. In the wake of Orlando, he was calling on people to walk into bars fully armed as a means to prevent future tragedies.

There's no more personal issue than gun violence; every one of these stories is a life lost, i'm hoping that over the long term, as I tell these stories, that it will help to open people's eyes.

I will consider my time in the Senate a failure if we don't pass some meaningful legislation to reduce the likelihood that Sandy Hook ever happens again.

From fear of the unknown, both horns and wings have grown.

You have to think not about what you mean but about what people hear.

The absence of fear is love.

I wake up ready to right and I feel like I'm on the right side of history every day.

Republicans are going to have to come to the conclusion that there's a political price for standing against 90 percent of their constituents to stand with the gun lobby.

No need to repent, no need to forgive - reverse 'evil' to live.

A domain exits where concepts can't go; so leave them on the doorstep to enter.

Frankly, when you twin the language of assassination threats with Donald Trump's suggestion that a Hillary Clinton electoral victory would be illegitimate, it scares the hell out of me.

A fish might more easily live on the apex of a rock than a man accustomed to crime live a life of virtue. (“The Story of Prince Barkiarokh”)

Writing is like trying to escape quicksand. The harder you try the faster you sink.

It is impossible to convince the fool that there are pleasures superior to those we share with the rest of the animals.

The journey with a 1000 miles begins with one step.

Everything in the world is purchased by labor.

The gospel impacts the way we do our work in ways that hopefully brings a greater flourishing to our world.

This isn't a war," said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.

I go by the great republican principle, that the people will have the virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and wisdom [to the offices of government].

Nonviolent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement, not replace, the progress of change. It was the way to divest himself of passivity without arraying himself in vindictive force.

Everything is evil that humans can't control or conquer