When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.

The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.

In Europe, it appears that in the name of democracy, elites are pursuing an autocratic, centralized power, seeking economic control and social regimentation.

Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason, and those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.

Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.

Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.

Oregon is the only state in the union that facilitates suicide.

For faithful Catholics, communion is not just a nice ritual: It is the body and blood of Jesus Christ, and the ultimate sign of our willingness to be incorporated into the church.

To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.

Getting married is the boldest and most idealistic thing that most of us will ever do.

Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified.

Real? What is real? And tell me, what importance does reality have anyway? Did you learn from the experience? Now, that is important!

When their voices didn't reach my ears, I rebelled against my own skin too young to realize that without their stories I would starve.

There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.

I'm going to drink a Coor's Light, cause Bud Light don't pay me nothin'.

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

Take dem shoes off your teeth and stop running your mouth.

Those who are nurtured best, survive best.

I would rather obey than work miracles.

He was the closest thing I'd ever had to something, or someone, that mattered. But in the end, close didn't count. You were either in, or you weren't.

I don't need proof, I have faith.