One of my greatest pleasures is being on the farmland that's been in the family since 1833.

The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.

What are the things that you can't see that are important? I would say justice, truth, humility, service, compassion, love...They're the guiding lights of a life.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

All I want is the same thing you want. To have a nation with a government that is as good and honest and decent and competent and compassionate and as filled with love as are the American people.

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

The test of a government is not how popular it is with the powerful and privileged few but how honestly and fairly it deals with the many who must depend on it.

America has no functioning democracy at this moment.

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.

We are all same, inside our homes!

Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast.

The 'believe' tattoo is because my mom always told me to believe.

Is the cinema more important than life?

I was the first one in my family to go to college.

I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong.

You have to work with the ideas and give them a little push.

Friend, the church finds its life as it listens to the Word of God. It finds its purpose as it lives out and displays the Word of God. The church’s job is to listen and then to echo.

Forgiveness proceeds from a generous soul.

We're going to keep building the party until we're hunting Democrats with dogs.