What I say is it's not that Obama hates America. It's not that he's a traitor, that he's a secret Muslim, that he's a Manchurian Candidate. He simply subscribes to an ideology that thinks it would be good for America to have a diminished economy and a diminished role in the world. In other words, Obama is all about what he perceives as global justice.

I'm completely Americanized - I have an American accent, an American wife - but a residue of me is foreign.

The allegation of some progressives that America is an evil empire is not simply wrong—it is obscene.

Christianity enhanced the notion of political and social accountability by providing a new model: that of servant leadership. In ancient Greece and Rome no one would have dreamed of considering political leaders anyone's servants. The job of the leader was to lead. But Christ invented the notion that the way to lead is by serving the needs of others, especially those who are the most needy.

Iraq is part of a legitimate American effort not to have democracy everywhere but to have democracy somewhere.

America is simultaneously the most attractive and most repulsive place on the planet. It is most loved and most hated.

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.