I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.

Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.

Our current identification system is so disjointed that the World Trade Center terrorists had a total of 63 valid driver's licenses between them.

Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.

If we change the definition of marriage to be more inclusive, then it is logical to argue that we should broaden the definition so that won't exclude anyone.

From a monarchy followed by suffering under Communism, Ethiopians must be given the opportunity to flourish under the greatest of systems - democracy.

Frivolous lawsuits are booming in this county. The U.S. has more costs of litigation per person than any other industrialized nation in the world, and it is crippling our economy.

Most people understand life expectancy has changed since Social Security started in 1937 when folks lived to be 59 years old. Today, they live to be 77 years old.

Indeed, there are so many prejudices against everyday middle-class values on college campuses, and serving in the military and being pro-American just seems to be one of them.

There is a certain element of complementarity between men and women that is biological by nature.

In Ethiopia, democracy is in its infancy and it must be nurtured along by its leaders.

The mediocre leader tells. The good leader explains. The superior leader demonstrates. The great leader inspires.

The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

You are the central point about which his world spins.

If you mentally believe it will happen, your body is going to find a way to make it physically happen.

I think anything is better than war. The extent to which one can negotiate with fanatics, I have no idea. I don't know.

Artists are taught to be humble about their impact, especially in folk music. It's so ingrained that I have a hard time even thinking I had any impact other than what a normal hit song would have.

Study the heart and the mind of man, and begin with your own. Meditation and reflection must lay the foundation of that knowledge, but experience and practice must, and alone can, complete it.

If we do not bear the cross of the Master, we will have to bear the cross of the world, with all its earthly goods. Which cross have you taken up? Pause and consider.

Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.

Speak of me as I am. Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice.