The terrorist threat to American troops has decreased in some ways because there's not 175,000 in a dangerous part of the world. There's only 15,000.

Race to race, the Republicans are putting up candidates that are quite far out of the mainstream in terms of should we have passed the Civil Rights Act or does Social Security need to exist.

If faith is your motivation, share that.

Most evil in the world is only partly because of an evil person. Most of it is because of the complicity of bystanders.

I think life is sacred, whether it's abortion or the death penalty.

No couples in Virginia can adopt other than a married couple - that's the right policy.

We spend at least $5 for remedial education right now for every dollar we put in early childhood education. All the studies on early childhood education show this is going to pay for itself.

Matters about reproduction and intimacy and relationships and contraception are in the personal realm. They're moral decisions for individuals to make for themselves.

I'm not going to give a courtesy gift to a person who's going to win, and I'm not going to give a sympathy gift to a person who's going to lose.

If you want to have a society where people are respected and respect laws, you can't have somebody at the top who demeans every group that he talks about.

I think if you run away from who you are, that you're a Democrat and you're proud to be a Democrat, it's foolish. And the reason it's foolish is you've got a lot to be proud of.

Grief doesn't arrive on schedule, as much as we'd like to.

The original text of the Bible was perhaps written in Hebrew and Aramaic and later translated into Greek.

Everyone does not know the secrets of TruthThe States of Truth are not evidential.

Well, bloody noses." I hug his coat tighter. "Those are definitely hot.

Alcohol-inspired fights are a reminder of the price we pay for our daily submission at the altars of prudence and order.

When other sects speak well of Zen, the first thing that they praise is its poverty.

Silence is the medium of source between you and your ego consciousness.

it is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime

There is so much division in this world. So what is really the path of healing? It can begin in this moment, by embracing the life that's here.