Learning is a good thing, but unless it's tempered by faith and a love of freedom, it can be very dangerous indeed.

Freedom cannot exist alone.

It is quite sad, to me, that that ideal, that vision and understanding [of American founding ], doesn't seem to be a part of the current political season.

You would hope that the supposed best of American educational institutions would teach its students about America as an institution.

[ Alexis de] Tocqueville said it in 1835, and it's as true today as it was then: 'Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. Religion is more needed in democratic societies than in any other.'

[John] McCain references favorite presidents like Teddy Roosevelt. Hillary cited Eleanor Roosevelt.

Issues are important, yes, but issues come and go. America as an ideal is timeless.