There were no politics to polarize us then, to magnify every slight. The "negroes" of Washington had their public schools, restaurants, bars, movie houses, playgrounds and churches; and we had ours.

As for a climactic conflict between a once-Christian West and an Islamic world that is growing in numbers and advancing inexorably into Europe for the third time in 14 centuries, on this one, Breivik may be right.

You may be sure that in this new international system, the American citizen will count for precious little.

If the Europeans want to intervene, that's their business. But if I were president, I would remove every United States soldier from the Balkan peninsula.

[The courts and the media elite] are abolishing America, they are deconstructing our country ... they have dethroned our God.

The notion of a world government to defend our rights would have sent the founding fathers running for their muskets.

Nations decide upon their own destinies, and those choices are not the business of the United States if they do not threaten the United States.