I am an atheist, although I very much admire and have been influenced by many traditionally religious people.

Being pro-life is an essential part of being a writer.

This is a dishonest administration, because it is becoming clear that the unemployment statistics of the [Barack] Obama administration are not believable.

I have been in schools around the country, and I have written on education for years. Once, I was once doing a profile on Justice William Brennan and I was in his chambers, and Brennan asked, "How do we get the words of the Bill of Rights into the lives of the students?" Well, it is not difficult. You tell them stories.

The Fourth Amendment is on life support and the chief agent of that is the National Security Agency.

I've never met anybody quite like [Bill Shawn]. He created - and I'm sure it was conscious - an aura about him of quietude.

Inside that quietude there was the firmest of wills. [Bill Shawn] knew exactly what he wanted to do.