I am a trial lawyer. Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit.

I had not even thought of running for president until one day in 1991, at a small fund-raiser, completely unanticipated, someone stood up and said, 'Hey, Mario, in all the years we've supported you, we've never heard you talk about the presidency, and we want to know why not.'

My favorite thought about Abraham Lincoln is he believed in two things: loving one another and working together to make this world better.

I have no quarrel with people seeing me as a sinner.

The Catholic teaching against murder, for example, is largely the same as our secular laws. But as a law, it obviously has a secular rationale at least as strong as its religious rationale.

There's something about rhetorical violence that is ugly and worrying.