[International law] doesn't show what the Constitution originally meant, and it doesn't show what is fundamentally important to Americans today. It shows what's fundamentally important to somebody else today.

Campaign promises are - by long democratic tradition - the least binding form of human commitment.

I think the main fight is to dissuade Americans from what the secularists are trying to persuade them to be true: that the separation of church and state means that the government cannot favor religion over nonreligion.

In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along.

But I also believe that a lot of gun owners would agree that AK-47s belong in the hands of soldiers, not on the streets of our cities.

I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged.

Certainly one cannot ban cross burning in the sanctity of his bedroom.