When you involve yourself in a group like No Labels, …I think it is a positive step in the right direction of trying to get things done

From my perspective, we as a nation need to make policy a priority and drive the politics as a result of good policy.

I think in 2012 one of the primary issues that will get a lot of discussion will be comprehensive tax reform.

Education must be an equal opportunity for all.

What's the point in being an unpopular writer? It just doesn't make a lot of sense. For me it doesn't, anyway.

Some reputed saints that have been canonized ought to have been cannonaded.

My commitment originated in my own story and my own relationship to violence.

The nature of the presidency is that sometimes you don't choose which challenges come to your desk. You do decide how to respond.

I've actually always been fussy about the work I do.

Jim Bakker is an extremely talented preacher, if he would just get it together.

Love is not a plant of slow growth.

I think we have replaced MTV. MySpace is more convenient. You can search for things, while MTV is just delivering things to you. On MySpace you can pick your own channel and go where you want.

Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.