"The attack on ObamaCare was that Congress does not have the power under the Commerce Clause to force a private citizen into a private contractual relationship. If such a thing is permitted to stand, the anti-ObamaCare forces argue, there will be no limit to Congress's power in the future."

"The problem is that borrowing money to pay back more borrowed money that will oblige you in the future to borrow even more money doesn't sound kosher. Because it isn't."

"Nixon in 1968, unlike Obama 2008, was elected as a minority president with only 43 percent of the vote. Yet, in 1972, he won what, in some measures, was the most lopsided election in American history with 61 percent."

"Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility."

"I want to be distinguished from the rest to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me."

"We would like to get to a point in our society where people really are colorblind and this message would not have to be told anymore. Unfortunately, we're not there yet."

"It is a timeless truth that a heart touched by genuine kindness never loses its warmth."

"It is a unyielding truth that the richness of existence is found in simple harmonies, not superfluous splendors — an essential principle for the reflective life."