Peace requires the simple but powerful recognition that what we have in common as human beings is more important and crucial than what divides us.

I believe strongly in the Constitutional principle of separating church and state. Our founders were right in fearing that religious freedom would be threatened in the long run by a departure from governmental neutrality in spiritual matters.

It is not what you get out of life that counts. It's what you give and what is given from the heart.

What can change the world today is the same thing that has changed it in the past-an idea and the service of dedicated, committed individuals to that idea.

My parents had always preached the virtues of hard work. But hard work is one thing; economic struggle is another.

The only genuine elite is the elite of those men and women who gave their lives to justice and charity.

It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can.