In Barack Obama, Democrats have put forth a man of strong religious faith who is comfortable connecting his spiritual life to his public role as a policymaker.

For me, and maybe for many religious kids of the '60s, the church lost relevance the more it became a surrogate in the movement for social and political change.

When I worked at the White House in the mid-1990s, I would not have dreamed of sharing my beliefs on faith with my colleagues.

In Barack Obama, Democrats have put forth a man of strong religious faith who is comfortable connecting his spiritual life to his public role as a policymaker.

The White House is a huge organization, first and foremost.

I'm not going to parse the statement. You've got the statement I made earlier and the statement speaks for itself.

Maybe there'll be a simple, innocent explanation. I don't think so, because I think we would have offered that up already.