I don't know about you, but I'm betting that when it comes to doing the right and good thing, the Little Sisters of the Poor know better than the regulators at the Department of Health and Human Services.

There are important questions about protecting and securing the border, but we don't need to build a wall.

We mustn't assume that we are going to deinvent government solely from inside the Beltway or within one or two sessions of Congress. We will do it one step at a time, in one community at a time - at the local level and through local institutions like churches, nonprofit and volunteer organizations and families.

I never felt comfortable with making political decisions based on whether, you know, it was the right thing to do in terms of a poll.

Sometimes when people say things, we should actually believe what they say.

Who among us has never looked up into the heavens on a starlit night, lost in wonder at the vastness of space and the beauty of the stars?

I'm enjoying turning down all requests for interviews. I don't miss being in politics.