This kind of horror has become all too familiar to us. As parents, Cindy and I offer our prayers to the memory of the slain children and ask that God ease the pain of Littleton's suffering families, ... The students of Columbine High School and children everywhere have a basic right to learn in an environment free of fear and violence. We must redouble our efforts to see that this is a reality.

We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears.

Excessive administration secrecy... feeds conspiracy theories and reduces the public's confidence in government.

The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.

I think [social media] is fundamentally restructuring the whole nature of information and how it's expressed in America.

Senator Obama voted against Justice Breyer and Justice Roberts on the grounds that they didn't meet his ideological standards. That's not the way we should judge these nominees. Elections have consequences.

We know that Medicare's going broke in seven years, but we need to start over. That's what the American people want us to do.