Five people in robes said they are bigger than the voters of California and Congress combined. And bigger than God. May He forgive us all.

Marriage as an institution is not so much threatened by same-sex couples as it is by heterosexuals' increasing indifference to it.

If I had quietly retired as governor in 2007 and went into banking or something of that nature, I would have been, at most, a footnote in the story and probably never mentioned.

We ask why there's violence in our school but we've systematically removed God from our schools. Should we be so surprised that schools have become such a place of carnage? Because we've made it a place where we don't want to talk about eternity, life, what responsibility means, accountability.

We ought to be people of compassion. And being people of compassion means we deny ourselves, and our self centeredness.

Raised some taxes based on court orders and voter approval.

All of my children are ideologically and politically in sync with me, they all have authentic Christian faith. It's something I'm very grateful for.