It's mystifying to me why the House leadership will not allow a straight up-or-down vote on a pay raise. I vote against every pay raise because taxpayers deserve better.

Lies and secrets, Tessa, they are like a cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave only destruction behind.

Drummed into me, above all, by my dad, by the whole family, was that without your good name, you would be nothing.

Prayer is either a sheer illusion or a personal contact between embryonic, incomplete persons (ourselves) and the utterly concrete Person.

[Donald Trump] said that even though he wants to repeal and replace ObamaCare, he might want to preserve some parts.

I feel it's just some sort of game if it's just abstract.

As a dramatist, I don't have politics.

Beauty is whatever anyone thinks is beautiful.

Metal musicians say dumb things sometimes.

For Europe, the fall of Communism has to be taken into account, and the fact that in the fight against Communism the recovery of Europe's Christian roots was the driving force.