Fundamental rights belong to the human being just because you are a human being.

As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.

There are things that must evoke our anger to show we care. It is what we do with that anger. If we direct that energy we can use it positively or destructively.

A person is a person through other persons. None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how to think, or walk, or speak, or behave as human beings unless we learned it from other human beings. We need other human beings in order to be human. I am because other people are. A person is entitled to a stable community life, and the first of these communities is the family.

I will never tell anyone to pick up a gun. But I will pray for the man who picks up a gun, pray that he will be less cruel than he might otherwise have been.

Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

We are going to have to be very careful that we give people the hope that freedom is actually better than unfreedom.