I'm not ashamed of the things I believe and why I believe them.

It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached.

There's never been a civilization that has rewritten what marriage and family means and survived.

A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here's where we are going to go, here's why we need to go there, and here's how we are going to get there. A manager is the one who actually gets up under the hood and tunes the carburetor.

The real preparation for [Christ's] return is not to act like we know it's coming right now and do something different. It's to do what we should have been doing all along.

Respect gay couples but no gay adoptions.

We had so many different presidents, including Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln - there were other founders like Hamilton, Adams - who made it very clear that the courts can't make a law. The Constitution is expressly clear that that's a power reserved to Congress.