"he further left one goes, the more negative the assessment of today's America and the America of the past."

“Nor is it enough to refrain from personally performing an injustice, for in order to be good one must seek out and rectify injustices performed by others.”

“American values, or Americanism, refers to what I call the "American Trinity": "Liberty," "In God We Trust," and "E Pluribus Unum" , the three values that appear on all American coins.”

“The majority of Republicans are not conservative.”

“Of all the world's evils, child abuse may rank as the greatest.”

“The foolishness of that comment is so deep, I can only ascribe it to higher education. You have to have gone to college to say something that stupid.”

“I am for no law to be passed to prevent Keith Ellison or anyone else from bringing any book he wants to his swearing-in, whether actual or ceremonial. But neither I nor tens of millions of other Americans will watch in silence as the Bible is replaced with another religious text for the first time since George Washington brought a Bible to his swearing-in”