The idea that Taylor Swift would become the giant pop icon of 2015, 2016 - she's really good, but I don't think it's written in the stars.

I strongly believe that the Second Amendment creates an individual right to possess and use guns for purposes of both hunting and self-defense.

I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you'll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before.

As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race.

There is no liberty without dependency. That is why we should celebrate tax day.

I'll tell you an explanation that I find commonly overrated and speculative in the extreme: the idea that things that succeed in popular culture do that because they hit the temper of the times.

There are some lawyers who think of themselves as basically instruments of whoever their clients are, and they pride themselves on their professional craft

Catholicism is a wide tent in terms of political and legal positions. We could have nine Catholics on the Supreme Court and a great deal of diversity toward the law.

Once we know that people are human and have some Homer Simpson in them, then there's a lot that can be done to manipulate them.

A program that saves young people produces more welfare than one that saves old people.

Somewhat more broadly, I will suggest that animals should be permitted to bring suit, with human beings as their representatives, to prevent violations of current law.

I've never met a politician who didn't deserve to be tossed into a pit full of Kallin, " Beranabus grunts.

Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.

I love working with the quartet. I have more freedom and flexibility.

Man has survived and prospered for more than 150,000 years on this planet without the help of use-by dates.

There isn't a single human being who hasn't plenty to cry over, and the trick is to make the laughs outweigh the tears.

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, nothing completely straight was ever made

What's important at this time is to re-clarify the difference between hero and villain.

God will never give you any problems that he thinks you can't solve.

In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial.

We have a situation where we have a lawmaker here in California who says that if you spank the child, you spank them, you're going to go to jail for a year or you're going to pay a $1,000 fine.