So when the only domestic social policy is tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthiest Americans, we say, 'Where is faith being put into action here?'

A billion dollars every week for Iraq, $87 billion for Iraq. We can't get $5 billion for childcare over five years in welfare reform.

The best response to bad religion is better religion, not secularism.

We can find common ground only by moving to higher ground.

Sometimes it takes a natural disaster to reveal a social disaster.

Our calling is not only to pull people out of the river, but to go upstream to find out what or who is pushing them in.

Faith reminds us that change is always possible.

Anyone can love peace, but Jesus didn't say, "Blessed are the peace-lovers." He says �peacemakers.� He is referring to a life vocation, not a hobby on the sidelines of life.

The Christian doctrine is one that is both about individual spirituality and a parallel commitment to social justice.

Hope is believing in spite of the evidence, and then watching the evidence change.

What is my calling? What am I supposed to do? I think running for office, public office, can be a divine calling. I mean, Ive wrestled with that very question myself.

No one escape death!

Enthusiasm and endurance are the greatest spirits of great accomplishments.

A drop of sense can save you an ocean of tears.

A young bride is like a plucked flower but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.

Every group spends more when its income grows.

And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have to approve it.

Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard

We cannot know God apart from His Word.

To me, playing an instrument and singing, all of these different things are just as natural to me as rhyming.

I think Latin has some logic to it and there was a discipline.