“Status quo, you know, is Latin for ‘the mess we’re in.”

It isn’t so much that liberals are ignorant. It’s just that they know so many things that aren’t so.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

With our eyes fixed on the future, but recognizing the realities of today, we will achieve our destiny to be as a shining city on a hill for all mankind to see.

If we ever forget that we’re one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.

As government expands, liberty contracts.

Here you discover that so long as books are kept open, then minds can never be closed.

The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

I’ve heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance?

A picture is worth 1,000 denials.

If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.

Socialists ignore the side of man that is the spirit.

We think there is a parallel between the Federal involvement in education and the decline in quality over recent years.

If you think you can – you can!

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don’t care who gets the credit.

Teen boys are a huge mess.

I got what I wanted then I threw it away why do I mess up the only things that want to stay.

I messed up a lot of things. I called it poetry.

Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.

We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be.

I’m so glad we found each other in this great big mess.

People do not plan to mess up their lives. They just don’t plan not to.

Messed up people even see the beauty in all the shitty places.