Leftists would like to pretend that any criticism of their views raises the specter of domestic repression. But in a country with a First Amendment, no suppression from government is likely, and in the citadels of the media and the academy, the far left is actually vastly overrepresented.

What modernity requires is not that you cease living according to your faith, but that you accept that others may differ and that therefore politics requires a form of discourse that is reasonable and accessible to believer and non-believer alike. This religious restraint in politics is critical to the maintenance of liberal democracy.

I think a lot of people are afraid the truth is in conflict with God. And are unable to let go and let the truth of the world.

I watched Nancy Pelosi and Tom Daschle. Good grief. What whining weenies.

What gay culture is before it is anything else, before it is a culture of desire or a culture of subversion or a culture of pain, is a culture of friendship.

I felt, and often still feel, unable to live up to the ideals I really hold.

The New York Times had not become The New York Times overnight. It had to earn its reputation day-by-day.