I truly believe that if torture had worked and there was a case to be made for it, we would see that on the front pages of the American press.

It seems to me it's always the evil we refuse to see that does us the greatest harm.

There is a tendency in any conflict, especially in a democracy, to fight the enemy you can, not the enemy you should.

Bethlehem was God with us, Calvary was God for us, and Pentecost is God in us.

Egypt is the next domino to fall and, as they say, so goes Egypt so goes the Middle East.

Did bin Laden act alone, through his own al-Qaida network, in launching the attacks? About that I'm far more certain and emphatic: no.

My take on the torture thing and even drones is: If we're going to get into assassination and torture, the second question is the morality, but the first is the effectiveness of it.