What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.

I believe we must seek God's will, never presuming to identify it with our own program or power.

Congress needs strong parties, but it also needs the capacity to deal with budget and entitlement challenges that are likely beyond the reach of pure partisan exertion.

The impending teacher shortage is the most critical education issue we will face in the next decade.

I'm a very competitive person, whether it's school, baseball or even playing video games.

I am struck by the fact that personal faith and political agendas are intertwined more closely now than at any other time in recent history.

Unified party control of the organs of government has proved no panacea.

I have also come to understand Congress' need for a bipartisan as well as a partisan capacity.

I believe in a fight between me & Wilder... I can come out on top

Goodness knows the Republican electorate is a pretty narrow slice of the population.

Personal faith can be a powerful force for public good.

The real me: A woman who continues to blossom into her authentic self.

Whenever a river reaches the ocean, it waits to go back..

I have no sense of what War is like

A wise girl knows her limits, a smart girl knows that she has none.

We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of Human Freedom.

A harmonious person is never vibrating at the same rate as a germ.

We all start out so damn sure, thinking we've got the world on a string. If we ever stopped to think about the infinite number of ways we could be undone, we'd never leave our bedrooms.

Youth is a frame of mind. If you get out there and enjoy it, you can have it at any time of your life.

LOVE your taste in subject matter... perfect summer reading!

I think many people with a chronic illness would prefer not to have their chronic illness, simply because it's high maintenance.