When you're going through an emotional experience and you're focussed completely on what's happening, you can't even spare any attention that the camera's there.

I affirm my faith when I'm asked about it. But I always try to do so in a way that communicates absolute respect, not only for people who worship in a different way, but just as much respect for those who do not believe in God and who are atheists.

Israel has its own right as a nation to defend its national security.

My plan to put Social Security in an ironclad lockbox has gotten a lot of attention recently, and I'm glad about that. But I'm afraid that it's overshadowing some vitally important proposals. For instance, I'll put Medicaid in a walk-in closet. I'll put the Community Reinvestment Act in a secured gym locker. I'll put NASA funding in a hermetically sealed Ziploc bag.

I think that asserting that former President Obama wasn't born in the United States was just the height of irresponsibility, of course. And Donald Trump corrected that one. There are others that have yet to be corrected.

The conversation on global warming has been stalled because a shrinking group of denialists fly into a rage when it's mentioned.

The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk. And even more — if more should be required — the future of human civilization is at stake.