It's very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.

I believe that we should do anything we can to minimize abortion and not to encourage it.

Standing alone among great democratic nations in imposing the death penalty is another moral decision that Americansare being forced to confront.

The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.

Southerners, whose ancestors a hundred years ago knew the horrors of a homeland devastated by war, are particularly determined that war shall never come to us again. All Americans understand the basic lessons of history: that we need to be resolute and able to protect ourselves, to prevent threats and domination by others.

I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don't have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don't adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind.

We've uncovered some embarrassing ancestors in the not-too-distant past. Some horse thieves, and some people killed on Saturday nights. One of my relatives, unfortunately, was even in the newspaper business.