Our goal is to get past this controversy.

[The eruption of the flag controversy is a glaring symptom of a distressing change in American politics over the past decade: the way that pit-bull negative ads have led to simplistic, visceral posturing by candidates at the expense of more substantive approaches to real problems.] It's a good issue to define your opponent, ... If your opponent is for flag burning, he's got to go through a very sophisticated explanation.

Within any important issue, there are always aspects no one wishes to discuss.

Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.

I didn't ever see past the beginnings, ... All I saw was the good times. But now because of the Good Shepherd Mission I have tools in my life to help me get past that.

We're going to need to show more intensity than we have in the past. Co-Lin is a better team than Jones and the split with Pearl River shows that.