I hope never to see the day that I cannot admit having made a mistake.

He was one of the few political leaders I have ever met whose public speeches revealed more than his private conversations. [On Ronald Reagan]

For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the safe depository for moral ideas.

It feels like getting a back massage from the Grim Reaper: one must get comfortable with the most horrifying things in the world.

I watch a lot of baseball on the radio.

Ronald Reagan was an excellent leader of our nation during challenging times at home and abroad.

I do believe that the buck stops here, that I cannot rely upon public opinion polls to tell me what is right. I do believe that right makes might and that if I am wrong, 10 angels swearing I was right would make no difference. I do believe, with all my heart and mind and spirit, that I, not as President but as a humble servant of God, will receive justice without mercy if I fail to show mercy.