Real fatherhood means love and commitment and sacrifice and a willingness to share responsibility and not walking away from one's children.

Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross. . . .

Son, there are times a man has to do things he doesn't like to, in order to protect his family.

You have given us something more than money -- you have given us a lot of your sons, your children that were killed beside our own children in Iraq, ... Iraqi people are insistent on going along the path for their economy and their security, but we do need the help of other countries who will help us, to stand beside us.

All real education is the architecture of the soul.

A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.