I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.

Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.

America is not doctrinaire. It's hard for an American politician to come up with an ideological position that is permanently unforgivable.

Even the dumber parts of our government are not run by idiots. These are ordinary people like us, doing a job. By and large, they're trying to do it as well as they can. Or at least as often as people in the private sector try to do as well as they can.

Death is so important that God visited death upon his own son, thereby helping us learn right from wrong well enough that we may escape death forever and live eternally in God's grace.

There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.