Wisdom worth sharing, words worth remembering.
You have citizens who don't understand how government works and they're kind of soured on it. All they do is criticize. They have no idea that they can make things happen.
Half the states have stopped making civics and government a requirement for high school. Half.
The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The more education a woman has the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same work.
Parents should continue to become more involved with their communities and more involved in their children's education.
I had become increasingly concerned in recent years about the lack of civics education in our nation's schools. In recent years the schools have stopped teaching it. And it's unfortunate.
We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values principles and education they need to make them good citizens.