I am a joyful conservative, unafraid to articulate big ideas with an optimistic smile.

My children range in age from 5 to 31. We adopted the 5-year-old, but people are often impressed with my wife before knowing that.

The greatest threats to North Dakota are policies coming out of Washington, D.C. I see it every day and feel a sense of responsibility to do something about it.

I really see the vocation of politics like I see every vocation - whether its being a reporter or serving in public life or being a plumber - as an extension of ministry.

The new fans of Japan won’t be Orientalists, but they will be anime-savvy.

Because in a split second, it's gone.

He was our symbol of baseball at a time when the game meant something to us that perhaps it no longer does.

I used to play the piano in the band, and so there's some horrendous scenes of me playing the keyboards.

Modern love is the enterprise that everyone wants to be a part of, yet there's a fifty percent divorce rate in round one and a sixty-five percent divorce rate in round two.

My songs are basically my diaries. Some of my best songwriting has come out of time when I've been going through a personal nightmare.

I have some vivid memories of walking around as a child with a cassette tape.

To be active is the primary vocation of man.

God gives gifts to everyone, some can write, some can dance. He gave me the skill to play football and I am making the most of it.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.