It was a new kind of class war - the people as citizens versus the politicians and their clients in the public sector.

Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters of life begin when you get what you want.

People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.

After all, if you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you also have to believe that no one was ever improved by a book (or a play or a movie). You have to believe, in other words, that all art is morally trivial and that, consequently, all education is morally irrelevant. No one, not even a university professor, really believes that.

If you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you have also to believe that no one was ever improved by a book.

The problem is efforts by liberals to establish a wall between religion and society, in the guise of maintaining the wall between church and state.

A liberal is a person who sees a fourteen-year-old girl performing sex acts onstage and wonders if she's being paid minimum wage.