Nothing remains great without a capacity to change and to accommodate the conditions of a changing world.

The state's interest in effective crime-fighting should never vitiate the citizens' Bill of Rights.

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

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

We must not descend to the level of those who perpetrated Tuesday's violence by targeting individuals based on their race, their religion, or their national origin. Such reports of violence and threats are in direct opposition to the very principles and laws of the United States and will not be tolerated.

If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before.

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.