I'm an average citizen and always have been.

The federal and state governments should ban the use of taxpayer funds to support cloning and embryonic stem cell research.

I am opposed to both cloning and the destruction of human embryos and adamantly opposed to funding of embryonic stem cell research.

The road to recovery is to stimulate small business and innovation by reducing taxation, regulation, and litigation.

I'm pretty sure I'm not at war with myself.

I have a proven record as an effective legislator, which I believe is my greatest asset.

I am a Christian. My husband and I belong to the Episcopal Church.

At an early age, I quit high school at 17 and joined the Air Force.

The one endorsement that makes the most difference is from the constituents in the district.

Once I was running and there was someone on the treadmill next to me who stopped running to answer a question I asked and flew of the back of the treadmill. Being fully engaged has many benefits.

God’s secrets are revealed to us through the inter-communication of the spirit of man withthe Spirit of God.

...a writer without authority? Impossible. as Kenneth Burke says, creation implies authority in the sense of originator....

No one's fearful, everyone's greedy, and it will eventually end.

Desire for an idea is like bait. When you're fishing, you have to have patience. You bait your hook, and then you wait. The desire is the bait that pulls those fish in-those ideas.

The Ten Commandments have a social purpose, for people who still need a social purpose.

The description you have been given of the world is an aberrant one. It does not accept and give proper place to the nagual, to the mysterious unknown that is our heritage.

The happiest people I have known in this world have been the Saints-and, after these, the men and women who get immediate and conscious enjoyment from little things.

right now,I am my father

I surrendered my beliefs and found myself at the tree of life injecting my story into the veins of leaves only to find that stories like forests are subject to seasons