For someone attacked by criminals to be victimized a second time by a second-guessing legal system is wrong.

The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.

There exists in this country, sadly, a callous, corrupt and corrupting shadow industry that sells and stows violence against its own people. Through vicious, violent video games...

We think it's reasonable to provide mandatory instant criminal background checks for every sale at every gun show. No loopholes anywhere for anyone.

Guns don’t kill people. Video games, the media and Barack Obama’s budget kill people.

The presence of a firearm makes us all safer.

Laws can't control the lawless.

All that first term, lip service to gun owners is just part of a massive Obama conspiracy to deceive voters and hide his true intentions to destroy the Second Amendment during his second term.

Law-abiding people need to be able to own firearms to protect themselves.

We cannot make ourselves safer by making ourselves less free.

Here's a summary for the time or attention challenged: Never surrender freedom for laws that can't affect criminals; they disobey laws for a living.

Where there is will there is a way Where there is a way there is progress And where there is progress there is change.

Poetry is a tracing of the trajectories of a finite sound to the infinite points of its echoes.

When you write, you're supposed to go stand somewhere else for a while, see things from a perspective that's not in line with your own reflexive truths.

The spouse of Christ cannot be defiled; she is uncorrupted and chaste.

My Republican friends are lamenting reconciliation. But I would recommend for them to go back and look at history.

It's not about celebrity or not. It's all about, do you have that 'girl in a cardigan' in you. You gotta have that.

I believe ingratitude is the original sin. I believe if Adam and Eve had been grateful for the garden of Eden they had, they would not have been so focused on the one tree they didn't have.

Live creatively. Create life. These are two ways to make a better world.

It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.

It's not too late to stop the Lisbon Treaty.