Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don't need.

Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don't have all the answers to think that they do.

I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.

Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit.'

I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again.

If you think you have it tough, read history books.

The Clinton White House today said they would start to give national security and intelligence briefings to George Bush. I don't know how well this is working out. Today after the first one Bush said, 'I've got one question: What color is the red phone?'

Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.

To me a real patriot is like a real friend. Who's your real friend? It's the person who tells you the truth. That's who my real friends are. So, you know, I think as far as our country goes, we need more people who will do that.

I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?

Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease.

Men are only as loyal as their options.

I absolutely fell in love with being on the water and the peace and freedom that you get being on the water in a single boat.

I was missing the main weight-bearing bone in both legs. And the left leg, I didn't have a full knee. It was a floating knee. I had six toes. My hands were webbed, and I also have one kidney. I don't have a full bicep on my right side. Thank God my hair didn't get ruined.

I have freedom. But freedom means total selfishness. It means nobody cares much what you do.

I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression.

Salt Lake City gave me a lot of surprises. How progressive the city actually is, for instance, compared to the rest of Utah - it's like this purple dot in a sea of red. And the government there is kind of a mix of conservative values and progressive ideas.

My father was in law enforcement growing up. He was a probation officer. And I've always understood the point of view of the peace officer, you know, because of my dad.

Native Americans are the original inhabitants of the land that now constitutes the United States. They have helped develop the fundamental principles of freedom of speech and separation of powers that form the foundation of the United States Government.

It is crucial that members of Congress cast votes that are supportive of the values upon which our nation was founded: equality, freedom, and opportunity for all people.

Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.

Every year thousands of Americans mistakenly refer to Cinco de Mayo as Mexico's Independence Day.

The Republican majority will stop at nothing to prevent access to the legal system for those who are hurt.

We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.

Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.

Many of us are alarmed at the skyrocketing cost of medical care, including patients, who are the consumers. However, medical malpractice is not the reason for these increasing costs.

The goal of the Head Start program is to give at-risk children all across our Nation a fair chance at succeeding in the educational system.

Freedom is the recognition of necessity.

The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist.

Just as Darwin discovered the law of development of organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of development of human history: the simple fact, hitherto concealed by an overgrowth of ideology, that mankind must first of all eat, drink, have shelter and clothing, before it can pursue politics, science, art, religion, etc.

All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.

A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.

The major poets of New Jersey have all suffered, whether it's Whitman, who lost his job for 'Leaves of Grass,' or William Carlos Williams, who was called a communist, or Ginsberg, whose 'Howl' was prosecuted, or myself. If you practise poetry the way I think it needs to be done, you're going to put yourself in jeopardy.

I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other.

We want to protect freedom of speech, but it is not unlimited freedom of speech. There has always been rules around defamation, slander and libel, and in Victoria, we have effective rules on racial and religious vilification.

A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.

The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy. The problem comes when healthy criticism is replaced with more destructive intimidation and sanctions.

The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy.

Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.

Each of us brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values.

We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.

Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability.

Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment.

It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. That's set out in the Constitution.

In order to cultivate a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry, it is necessary that the path to leadership be visibly open to talented and qualified individuals of every race and ethnicity.

I've always said that at the end of the day, on a legal issue, I think a wise old woman and a wise old man are going to reach the same conclusion.

My hope is that 10 years from now, after I've been across the street at work for a while, they'll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote.

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.

It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.

We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something.