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

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.

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.

The world will not change until we do

Never bullshit a bullshitter.

One thing is certain. I am not afraid to act as my conscience dictates, no matter what the world may think.

In the decade ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the productivity improvement that we provided in the '90s.

I'm trying to illuminate how perilously narrow we draw the concepts of masculinity and sexuality in our male culture.

In general satire, every man perceives A slight attack, yet neither fears nor grieves.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep.

Let us be renewed by God's mercy ... and let us become agents of this mercy, channels through which God can water the earth, protect all creation and make justice and peace flourish.

One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and distant rims on the edge of space.

I know it sounds hokey but I think, ultimately, on television you can't hide who you are.

The demise of our community and culture is the fault of sissified men who have been overly influenced by women.