But last year there were 540,000 people, roughly, detained coming across the border illegally. Forty-five thousand of them came from countries other than Mexico, demonstrating the fact that Mexico itself now is a pathway into the United States for people all around the world, and we don't know what their intentions are.

My goal has always been to figure out how we can advance the conservative cause.

Nobody else in the world can do what we can do. And nobody else is willing to do it for altruistic reasons. I mean, we don't go into places like Iraq to grab their oil or colonize their country. We go there to deliver, as George W. Bush said, the blessings of liberty.

Justices are not politicians. They don't run on a political platform, and senators should not ask them to do so.

My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility.

Birth mothers choose life, and a family, for their child. But this choice is rarely celebrated. Women routinely face family, friends and even health-care providers who think that adoption equals abandonment, according to researchers and conversations with birth mothers.

Democracy is like a streetcar. When you come to your stop, you get off.

I am really proud of what I have done for cancer awareness, but do I feel like Bono? No.