We can be fervent in our disagreements without being factitious with our beliefs.

I have family in Tanzania. I can't even explain the joy of riding through the Tanzania national park and seeing giraffes run across the road and elephants over in a pond and baboons running.

There are people walking around the streets of Kansas City who are unemployed, while one of our largest employers is not only sending jobs aboard, but then turning around and making a statement about preserving jobs.

[Raul Castro] is one of the most amazing human beings I've ever met.

Let's do more than say the 'Pledge of Allegiance.' Let us live it!

God did not burden the United States with a diversity of backgrounds, ideas and religions, He blessed America with them.

First of all, do I think there's some racists in the Tea Party? Yeah. I'm an ordained United Methodist pastor; there's some racists in the Methodist church. I don't know if there's a body that does not have some racists in it.