This is government's primary function - to keep us safe - and when large percentages in America don't feel safe, they start asking: What am I paying my taxes for? What is government all about?

Candidates With Deeply Held Christian Beliefs Are Unfit and Disqualified From Serving As A Federal Judge.

When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done.

Democrats don't relate to middle-class people.

We're going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We're going to beat guns into submission!

The only way we're gonna work with Donald Trump is if he moves completely in our direction and abandons his Republican colleagues.

If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say?

All we ask for is registration, just like we do for cars.

A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure.

The only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers.

Substantively Democrats are much closer to where the American people are than Republicans are.

The news isn't there to tell you what happened. It's there to tell you what it wants you to hear or what it thinks you want to hear.

Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things our own meditation must form our judgement.

Is Europe going to be breaking? I don't think so. I think the euro will stay. I think at the end of the day Europeans will find the solutions in order to hold Europe together.

One could not always put safety up front as the prime goal. Do that, and who would ever achieve anything of note?

There is no particular source my stories come from. The stories always seem to be there waiting for me, though sometimes shrouded in mist and fog.

To this day, I do not believe that five million were killed. I consider it technically impossible that could have happened. I do not believe it. I have not received proof of that up until now.

Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.

My mother, brave woman, lost her whole family when she decided to marry a black man in the 60s. When the marriage fell apart, she had to come back to her family.

The greatest hits in some weird way marks the end of something.

Don't trust the horse, Trojans. Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks even bearing gifts. -Equo ne credite, Teucri. Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes