Midterm elections for first-term presidents are notoriously difficult.

Race to race, the Republicans are putting up candidates that are quite far out of the mainstream in terms of should we have passed the Civil Rights Act or does Social Security need to exist.

If faith is your motivation, share that.

Most evil in the world is only partly because of an evil person. Most of it is because of the complicity of bystanders.

I think life is sacred, whether it's abortion or the death penalty.

No couples in Virginia can adopt other than a married couple - that's the right policy.

We spend at least $5 for remedial education right now for every dollar we put in early childhood education. All the studies on early childhood education show this is going to pay for itself.

Matters about reproduction and intimacy and relationships and contraception are in the personal realm. They're moral decisions for individuals to make for themselves.

I'm not going to give a courtesy gift to a person who's going to win, and I'm not going to give a sympathy gift to a person who's going to lose.

If you want to have a society where people are respected and respect laws, you can't have somebody at the top who demeans every group that he talks about.

I think if you run away from who you are, that you're a Democrat and you're proud to be a Democrat, it's foolish. And the reason it's foolish is you've got a lot to be proud of.

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

Nothing ever dies, nothing ever goes away.

Don't call me Alessandro, or this could get ugly. Oh, then may I call you Alice?

In a way, the blank canvas... represents the infinity of trying to use color to express emotions - to assign a linguistic function to color.

If you just sit there, and you're a writer, you're bound to write crap. A lot of American writing is crap. And a lot of American writers are professionals.

If you want to understand poetry, You have to go to its origin, If you want to understand the poet, You have to go to the Poet's home.

Once you savor God's goodness, sin holds no lasting appeal.

I started with self gone missing.

Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.

To know and not to act is not to know.