Barack Obama is the most antibusiness president in a generation, perhaps in American history.

What was distinctively Western was not slavery but the moral crusade to end slavery.

War on terror' is a misnomer. It would be like calling America's involvement in World War II a 'war on kamikazism.' Terrorism, like kamikazism, is a tactic.

I do think American culture has shifted a little bit away from the contemplative more toward the visual, more toward the emotional, and more toward the expressive. I don't think there's a lot that can be done about that. We just have to understand that it's the product of technology and of the way people live now.

Christianity makes of life a moral drama in which we play a starring role and in which the most ordinary events take on a grand significance.

If you want to understand what is going on in the White House today, you have to begin with Barack Obama.

America is the greatest, freest and most decent society in existence. It is an oasis of goodness in a desert of cynicism and barbarism. This country, once an experiment unique in the world, is now the last best hope for the world.