Reporters treat religion as beneath mention, as personally distasteful, or as a clear and present threat to the American way of life.

The First Amendment is about how we govern ourselves - not about how we titillate ourselves sexually.

Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.

There can be no doubt that the systematic hostility of the courts to religion has lowered the prestige of religion in the public mind.

[The current governing judicial philosophy is:] If you want something passionately enough, it is guaranteed by the Constitution. No need to fiddle around gathering votes from recalcitrant citizens.

The American press is extraordinarily free and vigorous, as it should be. It should be, not because it is free of inaccuracy, oversimplification and bias, but because the alternative to that freedom is worse than those failings.

I was thinking of resigning since I did not want to be perceived as a man who did the president's bidding to save my job. I have had some time to think about it since. I think I did the right thing