If you drill, there's going to be a spill. It's axiomatic.

Anyone who really studies Catholicism deeply is aware of the mystical nature of our faith. Even references to Christ's mystical body has connections to that principle.

So actually war is politically profitable, financially profitable, morally depraved.

I think we need to look for any opening we can to avoid a war and we shouldn't pass up any opportunity for resolution.

My aspirations for this country would be on the scope of what Franklin Roosevelt brought to this country in 1932 when he saw a nation that was broken economically.

America as a nation cannot walk in faith and fear at the same time.

My philosophy comes from a worldview that looks at the world as one. It's a holistic view that sees the world as interconnected and interdependent and integrated in so many different ways, which informs my politics.