“A truly moral nation enacts policies that encourage personal responsibility and discourage self-destructive behavior by not subsidizing people who live irresponsibly and make poor choices.”

There comes a time when people with values simply have to stand up. Think about Nazi, Germany. Most of those people did not believe in what Hitler was doing.

If we set our priority “the removal of all risk”, we’ll soon have sterile, stagnant, and unstimulating learning environments.

The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly.

We need to start thinking about the needs of the American people before we go and solve everybody else’s problems.

If we recognize our talents and use them appropriately, and choose a field that uses those talents, we will rise to the top of our field.

If we can take young people who excel at the highest levels, put them on the same kind of pedestal as the all-state basketball player and the all-state football player, and begin to get the same kind of recognition, it will have a profound effect, and we are finding that it does.

Every one of us must fight for it, because we’re fighting for our children and the next generation.

America became a great nation early on not because it was flooded with politicians, but because it was flooded with people who understood the value of personal responsibility, hard work, creativity, innovation, and that’s what will get us on the right track now, as well.

We are more than just flesh and bones. There’s a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can’t measure. We can’t find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it’s there.

Marriage is between a man and a woman. No group, be they gays, be they NAMBLA, be they people who believe in bestiality, it doesn’t matter what they are – they don’t get to change the definition.

What is important – what I consider success – is that we make a contribution to our world.

We are not like dogs who are kind of “What am I going to eat today? Oh, there is a rabbit; I am going to go chase it.”

We’ll always be safe in Jesus Christ if we place our faith in the Lord.

I’m a good neurosugeon. That’s not a boast but a way of acknowledging the innate ability God has given to me. Beginning with determination and using my gifted hands, I went on for training and sharpening for my skills.

One dark night the skeletons that they had carefully hidden in an obscure closet appeared, grabbed them around the throat, and strangled them.

I think of success as reaching beyond ourselves and helping other people in specific ways.