Tradition lives because young people come along who catch its romance and add new glories to it.

Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.

Ending torture and tyranny in Iraq was not a mistake. Supporting democracy in Iraq is not a mistake. Helping the long-suffering Muslims of Iraq who now seek to live democratically is not a mistake. In the long, long history of the Middle East, this breakthrough may one day be ranked as a dramatic turning point in regional history.

Command by instinct is swifter, subtler, deeper, more accurate, more in touch with reality than command by conscious mind. The discovery takes one's breath away.

Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it's one of the functions of Christianity to make this idea universal.

Marriage, the family unit, was the "original Department of Health, Education and Welfare."

We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord.