The left has chosen the courts as a major battlefield over social issues.

The left has chosen the courts as a major battlefield over social issues.

We know that this man has a proven record of being a 'strict constructionist.' Our President has given us his word that he will interpret the Constitution rather than make new laws from the bench.

Realizing that they can't get their agenda across: against religious liberty, against a culture of life, they can't get those issues across through the legislature, as people respond and their elected officials represent them, so they attempt to do it through the courts.

This is a man who graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University in three years, editor of the Harvard Law Review, argued 39 cases before the Supreme Court.

He has selected from a group of overwhelming candidates. This candidate was nominated to the Supreme Court because of his extremely overwhelming qualifications.

You know, there are only about 10 people in the United States that have ever argued 25 cases before the Supreme Court, this man has won 25 cases before the Supreme Court. He's an overwhelming choice.

Gay sex is a veritable breeding ground for disease.

It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading from our schools. It's the courts that gave us same-sex marriage. So it is quite a battlefield, and the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land.

No secular state ever existed and none would exist until the end of the French Revolution, and so we understand that America was built on the Judeo-Christian ethic and we believe that this nominee is going to see to it that those truths are upheld.

The secular world looks to the church and to its chagrin, finds no love, no life, no laughter, no hope and no happiness.

We have to take the biblical truth and start applying it in the statehouse, the schoolhouse, and the marketplace.

We must accept all of God's will for us, not just those portions that happen to appeal and bring instant gratification and pleasure to us.

Jesus Christ accomplished everything that God the Father started at the creation and that includes total health.

Gods plan makes you sing about resurrection when your hanging on a cross.

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.

We feel like if we miss a Sunday at church, that's one thing, but we can't miss an opportunity to help.

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

I freely admit that I took great license in writing 'The Dark Queen,' more so than my other historical romance novels. This is largely because I viewed the book as a fantasy novel as much as an historical. I do feel that writers should strive for as much accuracy as possible but, in the end, remember that we are writing fiction.

Think about how much skateboarding opens your eyes to see the world differently.

It's not about what it is, it's about what it can become.

Dialogue in fiction is always written to be read in silence. The page is the limit. Dialogue on stage and on the screen is meant to be spoken. The voice is the limit.

Most women I know are priestesses and healers... We are, all of us, sisters of a mysterious order.

In order to make further progress, particularly in the field of cosmic rays, it will be necessary to apply all our resources and apparatus simultaneously and side-by-side; an effort which has not yet been made, or at least, only to a limited extent.

The best entrepreneurs know when to ignore sage advice.

We never had a trampoline, but I wished I did. We'd sneak into a friend's pool and use their trampoline to practice backflips.

Washington is dominated by big money.

So many people are on television that don't know me, and they're like experts on me.

When I ride, I always like to look neat.

Freedom of speech gives you the right to stay silent.

An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

I'm like a bad musical cliche because I bring my guitar on the road and try to write songs in hotel rooms.

Looking past the immediate crisis, a more resilient system must be built on stronger and better designed shock absorbers, both in the major institutions and in the infrastructure of the financial system.

An Olympic gold medal is something that almost seems like a fantasy. Yes, of course I want it, since I was a little kid, before I even knew what the World Cup tour was.

Although an increasing proportion of the Hispanic population is foreign-born - about half of adults in this group - English proficiency is and should remain a requirement for citizenship.

It is such a secret place the land of tears.

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I'm angry about bankers. About the government.

'Forever Amber,' written by Kathleen Winsor in 1944, was banned in Boston at the time of its publication as obscene and offensive. This alone would have been enough to excite my interest, but in 1956, it was sitting inoffensively on the shelves of the small country library on the north shore of Oahu, Hawaii, where my family spent its summers.

I want to play the Green Lantern. I'd love to do a comic book hero. Go to the gym, get all buff, puff up. That would be a lot of fun.