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

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.

The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

To enable men to exercise that power is the object of protection.

We in this Congress have a choice. The American people have a right to exercise a choice on this issue, as to whether our men and women will continue to fight and die in a war based on deception and fantasy, or to start bringing the troops home.

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

But you can't exercise and be high. It's impossible.

Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.

Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart.

They actually bought me for Daredevil 2, but they have to exercise the option.

I like exercise. I like a healthy body.

We exercise great caution in airing an audio- or videotape released by a terrorist organization holding a hostage. These are decisions made by CNN's editorial staff and not by any third party.

But to be the Vicar of Christ, to claim to exercise his prerogatives on earth, does involve a claim to his attributes, and therefore our opposition to Popery is opposition to a man claiming to be God.

There is no age, height, or weight requirement to skate. It is good exercise no matter what your age is. If you want to be competitive, most start young. But, I practice with many adult competitors.

But I work harder now because I have so much more exposure. And actually the harder you work as a writer, the better you get at it. It's like anything else. It's a muscle you have to exercise. I write more now than ever.

I think that making love is the best form of exercise.

Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.