If you watch my Instagram and the quotes I wrote, everything is personal and it's all coming from me.

I protect my right to be a Catholic by preserving your right to believe as a Jew, a Protestant, or non-believer, or as anything else you choose. We know that the price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that they might some day force theirs on us. This freedom is the fundamental strength of our unique experiment in government. In the complex interplay of forces and considerations that go into the making of our laws and policies, its preservation must be a pervasive and dominant concern.

Brave men die a single death; cowards marry fish-head mermaids!

I think when I say universal, it means making a project that everybody can enjoy but also a project where they're getting closer to you.

Now the novels that are read are purely entertainment – well done, very polished, with a very effective technique – but not literature, just entertainment.

Sometimes we don't appreciate what we have until it's gone.

We believe in a single fundamental idea that describes better than most textbooks and any speech that I could write what a proper government should be: the idea of family, mutuality, the sharing of benefits and burdens for the good of all, feeling one another's pain, sharing one another's blessings — reasonably, honestly, fairly, without respect to race, or sex, or geography, or political affiliation.