Every once in a while, a great nation has to deal with a great issue. Millions of people understand that it's not bigotry to believe that marriage is between a man and a woman.

As long as there's land available, single-family homes will be built, and Colorado residents will always go for a single-family over a condo.

I consider the Chinese government's policy among the most intelligent in the world.

As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities.

There's a lot of people out now around America who depend on checks from their fellow taxpayers being in the mailbox every day.

When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America; we are hurting our law-abiding citizens.

I think it would be bizarre to pick somebody to speak at the convention based on their sexual preference, because once you go down that road, why don't you pick a transvestite?

I would prefer every [American] state keep the definition of marriage that's prevailed in Western civilization for a couple thousand years.

In the continuing debate over the morality of enhanced interrogation, an essential consideration is often overlooked: intent.

I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row.

All the culture war issues will be settled by the court.

...life's about accumulating wrinkles, deep as rivers and as wide as is needed to travel along their path, so that by the time you're ready to die, your life can be read.

Sometimes there aren't words. The silence between us is flung wide as an ocean. But I manage to reach across it, to wrap my arms around him.

A woman who loves books has a dreamer's soul, with each story she has read woven into her own.

It is easier to run a revolution than a government.

I won't go to a restaurant to eat with friends, always join them afterwards for coffee. In company I always get over enthusiastic, and this leads to indigestion.

After all, isn't that what really draws the line between childhood and adulthood, knowing that you are solely responsible for yourself? If so, then my childhood ended at fifteen.

There is one and only one responsibility of business: to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game.

My favorite musical? I don't. It changes all the time. I'm just a diehard, I'm totally old school, like I'll sit and watch, if they are re-doing Oklahoma in New York, I will be the first one there.

I will but confess the sins of my green cloak to my grey friar's frock, and all shall be well again.