History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth, whether it be so or not.

America is a nation created by all the hopeful wanderers of Europe, not out of geography and genetics, but out of purpose.

Politics in America is the binding secular religion.

Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.

Although Christianity has never been the guarantee of a democratic state anywhere in the world, no democracy has ever thrived successfully for any period of time outside of Christian influence.

The gusto of one, the indignation of the other; the challenge of the one party, the response of the other; the eloquence and the comedy, the passion and the issues were ours-no other country can provide them.

History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth, whether it be so or not.