I’m indebted to the teachers who shaped me - from the Sisters of St. Joseph at St. Croix Catholic elementary to the monks of St. John’s in Minnesota to my professors at Georgetown.

Sunday afternoons at a parish center - or a community center - is familiar territory for me.

Preventing radicalization that leads to violence here in America is part of our larger strategy to decisively defeat al Qaeda.

Being religious is quintessentially American.

The bottom line is this. When it comes to preventing violent extremism and terrorism in the United States, Muslim Americans are not part of the problem, you're part of the solution.

I grew up in Stillwater, Minnesota in a proud Catholic family.

We've seen some good progress, some good forward momentum. We have about Republican senators who have now indicated that they'll meet with Judge Merric Garland.

The United States is proud to be the first country to recognize the existence of a Jewish State - just 11 minutes after Israel's independence was declared.

As a husband, father and public servant, I'm thankful for the counsel and wisdom of my older brothers - Bill, who was a priest, and Kevin, who is a priest.

When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly.

Pride filled him. He'd put that soft look in her eye, the purr in her voice, and given her loose limbed ease.

You say one more thing that sounds like it's ripped from the pages of a really bad gothic romance and I'm out of here, are we clear?" - Valkyrie Cain

No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful heart that we lose the inner warmth in ourselves.

I really think it would be cowardly to pull back and not challenge the status quo, when the status quo may not be the right way for the field to go.

The surest way to make ourselves crazy is to get involved in other people's business, and the quickest way to become sane and happy is to tend to our own affairs.

I have made on occasion posters and things like that for political reasons but not my work.

There is no pain like the first time you get your heart broken.

It costs nothing to smile. Do it as often as possible

Noise makes no good, good makes no noise.