I probably got from my mom a passion for public policy and and civic involvement.

I'm a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order.

I - do I believe in evolution? I embrace the view that God created the heavens and the earth, the seas and all that's in them.

Human cloning is coming.

While that amendment failed, human cloning continues to advance and the breakthrough in this unethical and morally questionable science is around the corner.

This isn't the old days where you can just say stuff and people will believe it.

I want to be very clear - there will be no path to legalization.

Power is an instrument of fatal consequence. It is confined no more readily than quicksilver, and escapes good intentions as easily as air flows through mesh.

Adult stem cell research has produced some 67 medical miracles.

I never thought I'd live to see the day that an American administration would denounce the state of Israel for rebuilding Jerusalem.

I long for the day that "Roe v. Wade" is sent to the ash heap of history.

The relentless desire to give is evidence of love.

Communism, my dear, " I said when I managed to get hold of a bunch of bananas for hers and let them ripen on the windowsill, given her just one each day so they'd last for a while

The best part of being a mom to me is the unconditional love. I have never felt a love as pure, a love that's as rewarding.

There are few places you can find silence. Air travel could be the last fortress of solitude.

As Brian Urquhart has said quite correctly, I don't think that individual countries in the international community can stand aside and let all of these slaughters continue without doing anything.

Coaxing drunken Shadowhunters into making fools of themselves was a favorite occupation among the Downworlders, and this performance had been a tremendous success.

I've never been to a Hollywood party, although I imagine that it might be fun.

One of my biggest flaws is I don't take advice.

Build your life brick upon brick, Live a life of truth, And you will look back on a life of truth. Live a life of fantasy, And you will look back on delusion.

I have a "Do Not Disturb" sign on my hotel door. It's time to go to "Don't Disturb". It's been "Do Not" for too long. We should embrace the contraction.