Maggie Gallagher Quotations

Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire.

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

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.

To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Oregon is the only state in the union that facilitates suicide.

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.

In today's world, marketers reach inside the home and attempt to figure out not what's good for your daughter, because that is not their business, but what deep desires they can manipulate, stimulate and ostensibly satisfy in order to produce cold, hard cash.

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.

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

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

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.

In the '60s, parents were told to let their teens rebel, explore their boundaries. Increasingly the same message is being given to the parents of tweens.

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.

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

Black America knows better than anyone else the high price children pay for the sexual agendas of adults.

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

Worse, legal approval of suicide amounts to a declaration to the old, sick and vulnerable that others consider their lives worthless.

lifelong experience in marriage research, public education and advocacy.

I'd like to take this opportunity to again apologize to my readers for an oversight in not disclosing that I had done a small amount of work for the government in my specialty.

But the real truth is that it never occurred to me,

But for women, there are more subtle advantages like the financial benefits of marriage, better access to health care and generally less stress and fewer economic worries.

It brings people into the building. That's the whole idea ... that people will know that something interesting is happening here.

It is hard not to see the theological overtones in the movie... Beauty, goodness, love and devotion are all part of nature, built into the DNA of the universe.

Overall, in most places that have gay marriage, it looks like the demand for it is pretty small.

People in the United States, on average, marry in their mid to late 20s, and half of all divorces take place in the first seven years of marriage.

Let me make this clear: I didn't want a fight. What I wanted from President Bush was a nominee about whom, win or lose, we could all be proud. Instead, turning to His Girl Harriet, President Bush for once thought small. And that means, on this one President Bush is already a loser.

Married people are happier. And there is a lot of evidence that depression is a risk factor. It makes sense that if you are generally happy in life, that would be both a cause and an effect to a longer life.

With a variety of differentiated activities, this will help students to learn about themselves as well as their beliefs and values,

What Oregon's suicide laws actually do is convey social approval to individuals contemplating self-destruction, and to their friends and relatives.

Did I violate journalistic ethics by not disclosing it? I don't know. You tell me.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops recently formed a task force to struggle with how to deal with pro-choice Catholic politicians.

The set of ideas that lead a culture, a religion, a court to endorse same-sex marriage are simply not sustainable over the long haul.

It's refreshing to go back to the high school and high school kids.

Children had a special status - protected from the outside world - and they dressed for the part in a way that made that special status immediately visible to themselves and the adults.

But to any thinking American who understands the basis of free government, the cultural developments in Europe are alarming to say the least.

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.

At the heart of the gay marriage argument is an untruth: unions of two men or women are not the same as unions of husband and wife. The law cannot make it so, it can only require us to paint pretty pictures to cover up deep truths embedded in human nature.

It is not discrimination to treat different things differently.

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

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.

I am just an ordinary Catholic.

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,

Same-sex marriage is not the future.

The first question for me is: Are same-sex unions ‘marriages’? I’m against discrimination, I’m against hatred, I’m in favor of marriage equality, but I don’t think same-sex marriage is marriage. Therefore I think it is wrong for the government to insist, through the use of law, that we all believe that same-sex unions are marriages.