Common sense should tell us that positively reinforcing sadistic behavior, as these games do, cannot be good for our children.

It is time for the government of China to stop holding innocent religious figures in captivity merely for peacefully protesting China's occupation of Tibet.

As we consider the fast pace of scientific and technological progress in our modern world, we must not lose our moral compass and give way to 'free market eugenics'.

My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.

I think we just need to stick to our knitting on the topics and the subjects the American people care about.

I went to a number of foreign countries, and during whenever I went, I would try to go to an orphanage or a home for children. And I was seeing thousands of kids around the world that needed homes.

Let's create a legal system that can work.

Unborn children can experience pain even more so than adults as the baby has more pain receptors per square inch than at any other time in its life.

We must take proactive steps to promote democracy and human rights abroad.

We must do everything we can to be more aggressive in confronting Syria about what they are doing in Iraq.

I do a number of things working on human rights issues, prison recidivism rates, and then I also push and have worked a lot on the social issues of rebuilding the family.

You see, the deaf have an intimacy with silence. It’s there in their dreams.

The right belief is like a good cloak, I think. If it fits you well, it keeps you warm and safe. The wrong fit however, can suffocate.

It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual.

On the other hand, the concept owes its meaning and its justification exclusively to the totality of the sense impressions which we associate with it.

I think you have a lot to offer... not necessarily as a person, but as an organ donor.

If democracy is a means rather than an end, its limits must be determined in the light of the purpose we want it to serve.

A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed for the good of humanity - or even patented for himself - must feel the pinch of poverty very acutely.

When I am writing anything in general, I just want to tell the story that exists in my head; I don't try to write a parable or make a point.

If wisdom be attainable, let us not only win but enjoy it.

The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.