One of the things about being a boy, especially growing up without a father, is you really don't have that role model to teach you how to do things.

I like older people; I think older people have a lot of flavor.

My goal is to make my kids as happy as possible.

I still fall back a lot on my Les Paul, and there is just no getting away from a Les Paul and a hot pickup.

There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.

But I think the global economy will understand that the United States has the ability to meet its obligations. But it's not going to be able to do it over the long term if we can't control the growth of government.

Electing the first Catholic president, my grandfather, in 1960, did not mean that religious intolerance disappeared from our land.

With the growth of Harvard from a small provincial college into a great University, a unique paranoia has swept the ranks of local officialdom, furrowing brows throughout University Hall. The lurking fear is that somehow, in the operations of the gigantic administrative machine, a student might get lost in the shuffle.