Being American is not a matter of birth. We must practice it every day, lest we become something else.

You talked about national identity cards and the terrorism bill. We have made a government that has grown used to viewing us as subjects, has grown used to seeing its role as commanding us.

We don't need a nation that has national identity cards.

Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification.

Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.

I don't think the only place to fight for freedom is in the halls of Congress.

I'm a big supporter of immigration.

It's insanity for a party that believes in freedom to allow some Republicans to seize an agenda that is totally alien to the agenda that was established in the election.

Yes, many immigrants cherish the value of choice and opportunity and the value of education more than 7th or 8th generation Americans.

The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.

We are a studying nation. Scholarship from science is important to the whole world and those people need to be able to be safe and secure in what they do.

We have a retirement crisis in America today nor from a lack of money, but from a lack of vision

It’s unfair to see managers buying brand new cars for themselves when the salaries of their workers still remain unpaid! Good leaders are not selfish thinkers!

The real power and test of our ministry (calling) is not in the pulpit or public arena, but in our private lives, our home.

I've always been very tied to language.

I shampoo only once a week or so, with tree tea oil shampoo. And when I slap moisturizer on my face - just some stuff I bought in the grocery store - I pile it through my hair.

I don't remember one thing I learned in school.

"Heaven help us," said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.

In the information age, it's not just whose army wins, but whose story wins.

You think my kids just popped out of the ground?

I think fundamentally, the question of whether or not Christianity makes sense - whether it withstands scrutiny, whether the evidence supports it or hurts it - always comes down to the Resurrection.