If things are too easy, life is a whole lot less interesting.

Children cannot eat rhetoric and they cannot be sheltered by commissions. I don't want to see another commission that studies the needs of kids. We need to help them.

Hope is the best contraceptive.

You were born God's original. Try not to become someone's copy.

If it's wrong for 13-year-old inner-city girls to have babies without the benefit of marriage, it's wrong for rich celebrities, and we ought to stop putting them on the cover of People magazine.

We must serve consciously as caring role models, emphasizing the ethic of service, not consumption.

Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development.