Everything I am, everything I'll ever be, I owe to my family, to God's grace and to the people of Indiana.

I'm a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order.

I - do I believe in evolution? I embrace the view that God created the heavens and the earth, the seas and all that's in them.

Human cloning is coming.

While that amendment failed, human cloning continues to advance and the breakthrough in this unethical and morally questionable science is around the corner.

This isn't the old days where you can just say stuff and people will believe it.

I want to be very clear - there will be no path to legalization.

Power is an instrument of fatal consequence. It is confined no more readily than quicksilver, and escapes good intentions as easily as air flows through mesh.

Adult stem cell research has produced some 67 medical miracles.

I never thought I'd live to see the day that an American administration would denounce the state of Israel for rebuilding Jerusalem.

I long for the day that "Roe v. Wade" is sent to the ash heap of history.

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not allow it to grow on a branch that is too weak to bear it.

Whoever is for higher taxes, feel free to pay higher taxes.

I am interested in details. If you go into anything far enough, you get into the details of it, and people turn out to be interested in what makes things work.

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.

Effective questioning brings insight, which fuels curiosity, which cultivates wisdom.

It is curious to be treated by the old-fashioned people as a criminal because my thoughts and ways are beyond them.

Do you think love just goes away? Pops out of existence when it becomes too painful or inconvenient, as if you never felt it?

I understand all the problems for the Ministry of Defence, of course I do; working within a budget and trying to do so many things is not easy.

Washington couldn't tell a lie, Nixon couldn't tell the truth, and Reagan couldn't tell the difference.

Man is vile, I know, but people are wonderful.