Compromise is an honorable word.

If were going to change the laws, lets change them in ways which makes it easier to catch criminals, and yet at the same time protect the Second Amendment rights of our law-abiding citizens.

War is failure of diplomacy.

If I were to select a jack-booted group of fascists who are perhaps as large a danger to American society as I could pick today, I would pick BATF [the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms].

Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books.

I'm Polish, I carry no grudges.

If we're going to spend a lot of money to deal with the problem of 200 million guns in the country owned by 65 million gun owners, we ought to have a system which will work and catch criminals.

Mr. Dingell is just plain Mr. Dingell. And when he gets to be chairman of the Commerce Committee, he doesn't let it go to his head. However, he thinks he would be a very, very good chairman.

I can support going in after Saddam Hussein, but I want to make sure I don't go alone.

If you talk to any of my Democratic colleagues who lost that year, they would tell that gun control was one of the major contributory factors in the loss of their seats.

Everything in our foreign and domestic policy is a question of issue for the American people to vote on.

Our task is to carry the Lord's peace into every situation, into every duty.

If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.

This is the end of the day, but soon there will be a new day.

I often think that eventually I'd love to do some papers... my correspondence if life calms down a bit, but I think I'd do history or English literature... I've had enough of journos.

I feel responsibility for a lot of things that I manage to touch.

You draw closer to truth by shutting yourself off from mankind.

I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam.

Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side.

What about the poor salesman who is calling into the office from the corner saloon instead of the home sickbed he claims he is in?

If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.