Getting the government to put money into social programs run by religious institutions is a practice that started during the Clinton years, when Bill Clinton advocated the AmeriCorps program.

In short, I'm not sure that the abortion problem can be solved by legislation. I think it can only be solved through moral persuasion.

The real problem that I think those of us who are evangelicals and Democrats have to face up to is that the political right controls the religious media.

Of the 22 industrialized nations of the world, we're dead last in per capita giving to poor people.

Conservatives are people who worship at the graves of dead radicals. Stop to think about that. The people who started this country, George Washington, Jefferson, Hamilton, these were not conservatives; these were the radicals of the time. In fact, conservatives always look back on people who they despised and make them into heroes. If you were to listen to the religious right today, they would make you believe that Martin Luther King was one of their flock. In reality, they hated him and did everything they could to destroy him.

There's nothing wrong with making a lot of money, there's something wrong with keeping it.

I do not mean that others represent Jesus for us. I mean that Jesus actually is present in each other person