We can't nominate such a weak candidate. I'd love to be able to get one-on-one with Gov. Romney and expose the record that would be the weakest record we could possibly put up against Barack Obama.

President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob.

Many of the Christian faith have said, well, that's okay, contraception is okay. It’s not okay. It’s a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be.

As the Wall Street Journal called our economic plan, supply-side economics for the working man, is resonating in Minnesota and here in Missouri and across this country.

Radical feminists have been making the pitch that justice demands that men and women be given an equal opportunity to make it to the top in the workplace.

CO2 is a pollutant? Tell that to the plants.

Higher income people don't have to pay taxes if they don't want to.

The idea that the Crusades and the fight of Christendom against Islam is somehow an aggression on our part is absolutely anti-historical.

The dangers of carbon dioxide? Tell that to a plant, how dangerous carbon dioxide is.

Isn't that the ultimate homeland security, standing up and defending marriage?

And that is what the perception is by the American left, who hates Christendom.

This general eclipse of ambition and determination and fortitude, all of the very qualities on which I have prided myself, is ridiculous, and, I must admit, somewhat obscene.

It was as simple as walking and as hard as walking on with so far gone and so far yet to go.

I sing in five or six different voices that are all part of me. Its not contrived.

Alcohol was the background color in the fabric of Reggie's life.

Telling our stories is what saves us. The story is enough... The very act of storytelling, of arranging memory and invention according to the structure of narrative is, by definition, holy.

Do every stupid thing that makes you feel alive.

I think habits and behaviors are very hard to change. And they're even harder when you're back home.

You need to be able to confide in people.

I exhort and entreat you all, disregard what this man and that man thinks about these things, and inquire from the Scriptures all these things.

If you'll think about various series you've read, can you think of any instance in which, say, the tenth volume of the series is notably better than the first nine? I can't.