Going into politics is something people have asked me about forever.

I can’t stand to hear his [Obama’s] voice anymore. He’s a liar, and worse.

There's so much to think about when you're becoming an adult, and there's so many great poems about that apprehension and excitement.

I can see both sides of term limits, and I think, in different positions, term limits make more sense than in some others.

The bedrock of our democracy is the rule of law and that means we have to have an independent judiciary, judges who can make decisions independent of the political winds that are blowing.

You have to remind kids to stay connected to the meaning of Christmas. Sometimes it takes a little bit of effort, but it's so worth it.

After my mom died, there was so much written about her fashion and her style and all that, and I felt that one of the most important parts of her was missing, her real intellectual curiosity.

As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency.

When you make the right decision, it doesn't really matter what anyone else thinks.

I think my mother... made it clear that you have to live life by your own terms and you have to not worry about what other people think and you have to have the courage to do the unexpected.

People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

Tell me, Do you feel the way I feel? 'Cause nothing else is real In the La La Land machine

He that borrows the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; he that uses that of a superior elevates his own to the stature of that he contemplates.

Can anyone receive Jesus into his heart and not die?

You need the House, you need the Senate and you need the administration. And absent one of them, you're not going to get a heck of a lot done.

An ancient custom obtains force of nature.

Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart. - Molière, The Misanthrope

It's a law of life: the tyranny of things.

Why does the U.S. care which flag will be hoisted on a small piece of land thousands of miles away?

I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word processor and a guitar.

When you have an economically unequal society, you end up with huge swaths of society that are disposable, basically.