We don't have any problem finding enough things to do; the problem we have is making sure we don't overload ourselves inadvertently.

When people first vote for democracy, they have extremely high hopes, excessive expectations, and they're not realized. They don't instantly get richer and the schools don't instantly get better and the garbage isn't instantly picked up quicker. So they get disillusioned.

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

I don't think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say, the Big Bang theory, that doesn't at all cause me to question my faith that God created the Big Bang.

Faith implies a continuing search, not necessarily a final answer.

I can get up at 8am and be rested... or I can get up at 5am and be President.

In the bible homosexuality is condemned, but along with divorce and greed and callousness toward poor people. So its elevation to a highest priority among some religious groups has been very disturbing to me.