America is a new kind of society that produces a new kind of human being. That human being—confident, self-reliant, tolerant, generous, future-oriented—is a vast improvement over the wretched, servile, fatalistic and intolerant human being that traditional societies have always produced.

Obama gets his identity and his ideology from his father.

Liberal Christians are distinguished by how much moral and intellectual ground they can concede to the adversaries of Christianity.

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

There is a legitimate argument over whether the death penalty effectively deters violent crime, although my personal observation is that not one of the criminals who have been executed over the years has ever killed again.

Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism - it is in human nature.

The free society does not guarantee virtue, any more than it guarantees happiness. But it allows for the pursuit of both, a pursuit rendered all the more meaningful and profound because success is not guaranteed, it has to be won through personal striving.