Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it.

What we don't have a right to is healthcare, housing, or handouts. We don't have those rights.

If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop.

Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you have an equal right to justice - that is the essence. And if it's not the essence, then we've been sold a pack of lies. The essence is everyone deserves a shot - the content of character, not the color of skin.

I'm very much more interested in the created family than I am in actual families.

My family comes from Panama, and I grew up in a single parent household with my mother, who barely spoke English. She couldn't get a good job, yet there were four of us for her to raise.

Parenting involves two separate activities. You have to change your child in that you need to educate your child and instill moral values in them. But you also need to celebrate your child for who he or she is and make them feel really good.

In my family, if I talk back to my dad, I get in trouble.