My take on the torture thing and even drones is: If we're going to get into assassination and torture, the second question is the morality, but the first is the effectiveness of it.

Bethlehem was God with us, Calvary was God for us, and Pentecost is God in us.

If you want prisoners to be tortured, you send them to Syria. If you want someone to disappear – never to see them again – you send them to Egypt.

The CIA is an incompetent bureaucracy, generally.

I take my own experience and other assassinations through history and get a lot into the drone program, which doesn't work, as well.

There is a tendency in any conflict, especially in a democracy, to fight the enemy you can, not the enemy you should.

Egypt is the next domino to fall and, as they say, so goes Egypt so goes the Middle East.

I truly believe that if torture had worked and there was a case to be made for it, we would see that on the front pages of the American press.

Did bin Laden act alone, through his own al-Qaida network, in launching the attacks? About that I'm far more certain and emphatic: no.

Things conceived by minds and made by hands can never be quite the same, even if they try their best to be identical, because they're never the same from day to day or even moment to moment.

If I had to choose a moment in time when I knew my life would be different going forward—when I knew I would be different—this would be it.

Without Divine assistance I can not succeed; with it I can not fail.

I began to learn what poverty meant. It was burnt in my heart then that my father had to beg for work and there came the resolve that I would cure that when I got to be a man.

It is our duty never to speak ill of others, you know; least of all when we know that to do so will be the cause of much pain and trouble.

March is a tomboy with tousled hair, a mischievous smile, mud on her shoes and a laugh in her voice.

In order to be happy, think of the ills you have been spared.

What I know is my music gets blamed for school shootings.

The customer is the most important part of the production line.

I don't like driving very much. That makes me very unhappy, because I scream a lot in the car, but other than that, life is actually pretty good.