The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult ethical controversies of the day.

Too much of anything, even a good thing, may prove to be our undoing...[We] need ...to set definite boundaries on our appetites.

Much of the left-liberal elite despise traditional religious beliefs ... in general, they are profoundly uncomfortable with religious institutions and the traditional values they embody.

If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it.

President Bush was widely ridiculed for consulting the Reverend Billy Graham before the Gulf war.

America's only respectable form of bigotry is bigotry against religious people. And the only reason for hatred of religion is that it forces us to confront matters many would prefer to ignore.

A weakened sense of responsibility does not weaken the fact of responsibility.