I am just an ordinary Catholic.

Meanwhile, parents, students and teachers all report higher satisfaction with charter schools. People like them. They cost less money. They raise the academic achievement of poor kids. Go ahead, get a little enthused.

No law can give or take away the choice to commit suicide.

Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement.

Children had a special status - protected from the outside world - and they dressed for the part in a way that made that special status immediately visible to themselves and the adults.

Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.

Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.

Charter schools are public schools that operate, to a certain extent, outside the system. They have more control over their teachers, curriculum and resources. They also have less money than public schools.

Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.

When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.

I am just an ordinary Catholic.

I regret the whole worlds that will never come into existence, the children, the grandchildren, all the human possibilities that never were and never will be.

The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 percentile points.

Same-sex marriage is not the future.

In Europe, it appears that in the name of democracy, elites are pursuing an autocratic, centralized power, seeking economic control and social regimentation.

For faithful Catholics, communion is not just a nice ritual: It is the body and blood of Jesus Christ, and the ultimate sign of our willingness to be incorporated into the church.

Marketers are out there trying to figure out how to get your money out of your child.

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.

The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.

Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire.

Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years.

Oregon is the only state in the union that facilitates suicide.

To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.

Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified.

Black America knows better than anyone else the high price children pay for the sexual agendas of adults.

In the '60s, parents were told to let their teens rebel, explore their boundaries. Increasingly the same message is being given to the parents of tweens.

In today's world, marketers reach inside the home and attempt to figure out not what's good for your daughter, because that is not their business, but what deep desires they can manipulate, stimulate and ostensibly satisfy in order to produce cold, hard cash.

The European Union, which is not directly responsible to voters, provides an irresistible opportunity for European elites to seize power in order to impose their own vision on a newly socially regimented Europe.

For faithful Catholics communion is not just a nice ritual It is the body and blood of Jesus Christ and the ultimate sign of our willingness to be incorporated into the church.

When a marriage culture fails sexual desire no longer unites instead it fragments.

It is not discrimination to treat different things differently.

Getting married is the boldest and most idealistic thing that most of us will ever do.

Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know its the most exquisite love of all.

If I get in a relationship, it's always for the long-term; if not, I don't see the point.

Going on with life, it only gets more and more intense as time goes by - and the challenges only multiply.

I was a terrible athlete and a pretty bad student. I couldn't focus. My imagination was always racing.

We shall meet again. I have believed in God. I obeyed the laws of war and was loyal to my flag.

My stand-up has always been very character-based. I'm not really the kind of person that's like, 'Hey, here's what's on my mind! Tip your waitress!' I would create the jokes based on the character I was playing. It was always a performance-based thing for me.

I don't think you need to spend $40 million to be creepy. The best horror films are the ones that are much less endowed.

We aren't as concerned about the live aspect as other labels. The best live bands are the easiest to record.

How much abuse is a fighter expected to endure before he can be allowed to show some concern for his own welfare? Anyone who has been around fighters knows they all share the same secret: They are more afraid of embarrassment and humiliation than injury. Do fans and writers use this fact against them in what we celebrate or criticize?

Men and machines are good at different things. People form plans and make decisions in complicated situations. We are less good at making sense of enormous amounts of data. Computers are exactly the opposite: they excel at efficient data processing but struggle to make basic judgments that would be simple for any human.

I'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business.

Things are not getting better. They are getting worse. We need to elect Mitt Romney to turn things around.

I sample a little bit of everything - a bit of 'House,' a little bit of 'Prison Break.' I love 'Project Runway;' it's my favorite show!

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

I was born in the Northeast, and I have Midwestern parents.

I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.

A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle.