"I realized that my truest passion was for helping people change through faith in a higher power. That meant, for me, belonging to the church. Using my abilities to bring Christian doctrine to a postmodern world."

"I kept a steel wall around my moral and sexual instincts - protecting them, I thought, from the threats of the real world. This gave me a tremendous advantage in politics, if not in my soul. The true me, my spiritual core, slipped further and further from reach."

"I'm on the board of a national group called Faith in America. It's designed to fight religious-based bigotry."

"Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection."

"We tried to have diplomas without learning, we tried to have jobs without work, we tried to have houses without savings, we tried to have government without responsibility."

"I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that's fine."

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.… There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it."

"I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them."