Maggie Gallagher Quotes

Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason, and those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.

Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.

Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement.

Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.

When men and women fail to form stable marriages, the result is a vast expansion of government attempts to cope with the terrible social needs that result. There is scarcely a dollar that the state and federal government spends on social programs that is not driven, in large part, by family fragmentation: crime, poverty, drug abuse, teen pregnancy, school failure, mental and physical health problems.

Meanwhile, parents, students and teachers all report higher satisfaction with charter schools. People like them. They cost less money. They raise the academic achievement of poor kids. Go ahead, get a little enthused.

The European Union, which is not directly responsible to voters, provides an irresistible opportunity for European elites to seize power in order to impose their own vision on a newly socially regimented Europe.

It is not discrimination to treat different things differently.

In Europe, it appears that in the name of democracy, elites are pursuing an autocratic, centralized power, seeking economic control and social regimentation.

The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 percentile points.

Optimism is America's birthright.... There is no social problem Americans dare not attack. No problem, that is, except one: about marriage, and marriage alone, we despair.

No law can give or take away the choice to commit suicide.

Same-sex marriage is not the future.

Charter schools are public schools that operate, to a certain extent, outside the system. They have more control over their teachers, curriculum and resources. They also have less money than public schools.

I regret the whole worlds that will never come into existence, the children, the grandchildren, all the human possibilities that never were and never will be.

I am just an ordinary Catholic.

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.

Getting married is the boldest and most idealistic thing that most of us will ever do.

The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.

When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.

Marketers are out there trying to figure out how to get your money out of your child.

Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years.

Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified.

For faithful Catholics, communion is not just a nice ritual: It is the body and blood of Jesus Christ, and the ultimate sign of our willingness to be incorporated into the church.

Governor Christie's decision today violates the individual drive of men and women who no longer want to be tormented by unwanted homosexual desires. They are adults and should be free to seek out help for themselves with government interference.