One of the reasons there are largely Catholic and largely Protestant regions of Germany today is that people did sort themselves out geographically.

I have always regarded the development of the individual as the only legitimate goal of education.

The Roman Empire was fairly tolerant of religious choice as long as you made a point not of thumbing your nose in public at the Roman gods.

If you believe in what I do, which is secular humanism, I would find it extremely difficult to live with someone - not to love someone - but to live with somebody and build a life of someone who disagreed with me on something so fundamental.

I feel culturally Jewish because of the way that I have lived my adult life.

Feminists who want to censor what they regard as harmful pornography have essentially the same motivation as other would-be censors: They want to use the power of the state to accomplish what they have been unable to achieve in the marketplace of ideas and images. The impulse to censor places no faith in the possibilities of democratic persuasion.

I don't see why any president has to talk about his belief in God.