Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive

The family has always been the cornerstone of American society.

Conservatives were brought up to hate deficits and justifiably so. We've long thought there are two things in Washington that are unbalanced - the budget and the liberals.

I'm spending more time at this library in four days than I did at the Eureka College Library in four years.

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.

Wearing love beads and touting our sincerity will not make this a safer world.

Words are even more feeble on this Memorial Day, for the sight before us is that of a strong and good nation that stands in silence and remembers those who were loved and who, in return, loved their countrymen enough to die for them.