“That's what you need to be writing about. Not the increased crime rate, but the increased tolerance for criminals to do whatever they want and not be held accountable.”

“All your doing is keeping wayward teenage punks off the street. You should leave the real investigative work to us big girls with the pens and paper.”

“The foundations demand that public schools and teachers be held accountable for performance, but they themselves are accountable to no one. If their plans fail, no sanctions are levied against them. They are bastions of unaccountability.”

“A match made in heaven - where do you get those? That's what I want to know!”

“Whatever God is urging you to clear away cannot begin to be compared to what He ultimately wants to bring you.”

“Adults are living increasingly as children: completely in their imaginations. Reading Harry Potter while every newspaper in the country goes out of business. They know so little that is real.”

“I'm loving you. That's what I do in the past, present, and future, Skyla. That's all I'll ever do.”