You don't have to wait until people say they accept everything you say until you are actually prepared to sit down and discuss matters with them.

It is curious that atheists have proved to be so intolerant of those who have a faith.

I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it's a pretty worthless endeavor.

In democracy everyone has the right to be represented, even the jerks.

It behaves more like a tribe than a democratic institution...responding to custom rather than reason and using its own liturgy and language for the conduct of its domestic affairs.

But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of political leadership.

I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other.