This view of the text comports with the all but unanimous understanding of the Founding Fathers.

People who commit crimes should be responsible for those crimes. It doesn't matter whether they're priests or ministers or atheists.

Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the constitution.

To those who scare peace loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: your tactics aid terrorists for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve. They give ammunition to America's enemies and pause to America's friends.

Prior to September 11, we thought the world beyond our shores was one world of risk and the world in our continent was another world of risk

It doesn't help to wait until something happens and then prosecute the offenders, especially if it's the idea of the offender to extinguish himself in the commission of the crime.

Civilized people - Muslims, Christians and Jews - all understand that the source of freedom and human dignity is the Creator.