I believe you [Samuel Alito] and others would look and say that the role of the courts is limited and it's not to decide political matters.

It is time for the government of China to stop holding innocent religious figures in captivity merely for peacefully protesting China's occupation of Tibet.

As we consider the fast pace of scientific and technological progress in our modern world, we must not lose our moral compass and give way to 'free market eugenics'.

My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.

I think we just need to stick to our knitting on the topics and the subjects the American people care about.

I went to a number of foreign countries, and during whenever I went, I would try to go to an orphanage or a home for children. And I was seeing thousands of kids around the world that needed homes.

Let's create a legal system that can work.

Unborn children can experience pain even more so than adults as the baby has more pain receptors per square inch than at any other time in its life.

We must take proactive steps to promote democracy and human rights abroad.

We must do everything we can to be more aggressive in confronting Syria about what they are doing in Iraq.

I do a number of things working on human rights issues, prison recidivism rates, and then I also push and have worked a lot on the social issues of rebuilding the family.

The essential attributes of a great leader are a positive attitude, humility, and gratitude.

I don't understand the sizes anymore. There's a size zero, which I didn't even know that they had. It must stand for: 'Ohhh my God, you're thin.'

All diseases begin in the gut.

You can survive in New York without much, if you're careful. You have to make your own food at home, and don't buy a lot of clothes.

My feeling about my own work is, I could be writing 'The Aeneid' and they would still have to call it chick lit or mommy lit or menopausal old hag lit.

Reaching and understanding is the process of bringing about an agreement on the presupposed basis of validity claims that are mutually recognized.

The teaching of one virtuous person can influence many; that which has been learned well by one generation can be passed on to a hundred.

Stutters and snorts are meaningful but not usually referential.

My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go.

So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.